Blessed is the Flame #2
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![hitps://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net x Project for the diffusion of anarchy and counter-information blessedistheflame@riseup.net x Issue #2 — July 2024 FOR ANARCHY AND NIHILISM BLESSED IS THE FLAME MARCH - JUNE 2024 Mauricio Morales present! 15 years after the attempt to attack the nest of jailers; the wall paintings, the books, the activities, the counter- information projects, the burning tyres, the bottles that are flying in the wind, the whistling bullets, the incendiary and explosive mechanisms, continue to carry the name of Punki Mauri through the streets, across languages, kilometres and generations Nothing is over, everything continues A death in action is an eternal call to fight It is still time to generate and strengthen offensive complicities, to keep alive the anarchic action. To keep alive the memory of those who went on the offensive, to be an embrace in solidarity with those who are in the dungeons of capital, to contribute in some way to break its precious social peace. From the claim of responsibility for an incendiary attack by the Incendiary Cell for the Individual Action “Severino Di Giovanni”, Black Vengeance / FAI-IRF, page 7 «Mauricio Morales on the map of the international anarchist offensive», page 8 CELL “ABELE RICIERI FERRARI": «...In a present like the current one in which every revolutionary hypothesis seems like a vain chimera, we have decided to continue fighting: they may have deprived us of the hope of a radically different world but not of the thirst for revenge we feel towards those who perpetuate oppression...» From a claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack of a private vehicle of a carabinieri, page 4 New vindictive maneuvers in Francisco Solar’s prison situation (Counter-Info Column, page 13) Moénica Caballero transferred to CPF prison. Obstacles to continuing her studies (“Autonomy and persistence against prisons”, page 27) The sentences of 23 years and of 17 years and 9 months have been finalised for Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino respectively. Fiery barricades and destructions in Rome accompanied by the slogan “Freedom to Anna and Alfredo” (Counter-Info Column, page 13) In order to hit the system What could equip anarchists to Whleret’F hurts, y°“r’1‘.e§dfl:° 7 carry out more significant strikes, ssyifecm’ififle:o‘il:’cécofi, Iy to hone a quality of action tat which it will fight to the finish. goes beyond the symbolic? [...] To For what you need is not focus on well-conceived attacks compromise with the system that target vulnerabilities in the production and infrastructure [...] but a life-and-death struggle. “Ted Kaczynski: Hit where it “Making our actions count”, page 16 hurts”, page 12 COUNTER-INF 28 February, Be German: Daniela Klette, a former militant of the Red Army Faction, is captured by special police forces, ending a manhunt that lasted over thirty years. Source: Abolition Media 28 February, Quebec, Canada: Anarchists once again attack the construction site of a Northovolt electric car bater factory. Large steel spikes were placed in the various paths used by the machines, and the remaining trees were spiked to maximise the chance of damaging the machines. “...We must remember that it is only in the city that the electric car can claim to be green. All around, there are mines, always on indigenous lands, all over the world. It’ the toxic Rouyn-Noranda refinery. It’s the extensions of ports along the St. Lawrence River. From Africa to South America, it’s executions of trade unionists and defenders of nature carried out in the name of Canadian mining companies...” Source: Montréal Contre-Information 29 February, Toulouse, France: Anonymous anarchists ~sabotaged the ‘Toulouse-Narvonne railway line as part of the environmental struggle against the construction of the AG9 motorway, setting fire to the cables necessary for the signaling of the trains, resulting in the interruption of traffic in the Toulouse- Castelnodari axis. «..SNCF (France’s National State Railway Company) follows the will of the neoliberal state increasingly abandons the freight _system, to favour road transport of goods. The goal is always the same, to flow money into the coffers of private companies (private carriers, manufacturers and private managers). ‘The song is old now, only the rhythm has changed a little, it has accelerated in recent ears. Increasingly ~ widespread social poverty is only one of the consequences of this song, the devastation of our earth in the name of profit is another. We want to salute here the rebels who in these winter months tried to resist with anger and determination on the zad of the Crém-Arbre to the steamroller of a mafia and childish system. We imagine that the few nights in these cabins must have been very cold and very humid. This is why we tried through our action to convey a little warmth to you. We also do not want to praise trains and freight, because we consider that they are part of the same industrial system, oppressive and devastating. We will finally say that it does not matter whether nuclear waste and weapons are transported by train or truck, it is through flows that this system works. And the devastation caused by rail infrastructure is no less significant than that of a highway...” Source: Indymedia Lille 1 March, Hamburg, Germany: A group of anonymous people equipped with hammers, paint and tires vandalised the](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 1.png)
![facades of two luxury real estate agencies in Elbchaussee and set up a barricade in solidarity with the approximately eighty fighters who are being persecuted in the ongoing Rondenbarg trial for the riots that took place in July 2017 against the G20 summit Source: German Indymedia 1 March, Athens, Greece: Incendiary attack at the home of the police unionist Theodoros Foukas by the Direct Action Cells. The responsibility claim can be found on page 25. Source: Athens Indymedia 1 March, Athens, Greece: Breaking attack to new shops in Exarcheia by anarchists as part of the struggle against gentrification. “..Exarcheia as a neighbourhood and as a place of resistance is targeted by the state and investors with the aim of sterilising and turning it into an entertainment centre for the rich and the tourists. The “new” shops are the showcase of all this, bringing hordes of our political and class enemies to the neighbourhood. The bosses get rich and the residents get kicked out. How much longer will we tolerate this situation, this fiasco, the world is angry...” Source: Athens Indymedia 2 March, Beauvais, France: Unknown persons set fire to the vehicle of a Beauvais prison officer. Source: Sans Nom 2 March, Hadol, Grand Est, France: Unknown persons set fire to a fibre optic connection point. Mnyi: Sans Nom 3 March, Athens, Greece: The Anarchist Attack Squad attacked the New York College building in the Taurus area with an incendiary device using gas cans, causing damage to the entrance. “..The Greek state, being a loyal little dog of the USA, follows and implements its liberal policies here as well. More and more aspects of our lives are commoditised. Free public spaces are occupied by tables and seats of “stylish” stores that only make you want to vomit, individual and collective freedoms are suffocatingly restricted in the name of some “security” and capital flourishes. Basic social goods such as health, water, electricity are privatised and passed into the hands of the capital. Large corporations and companies operating in terms of cartels attempt to completely dominate our lives. Universities and education would not be missing in these plans. The dirty work in this condition is done by the entire state apparatus cooperating with large multinational universities such as this one, intensifying more and more the political conflict with the universities...” Source: Athens Indymedia 4 March, Brest, France: A large part of a branch of the Crédit Agricole bank was destroyed by arson. The perpetrator, who was arrested, was also responsible for another arson attack at the same bank in December 2023. Source: Sans Nom 5 March, Portland, HITA: An anarchist set fire to three machines at an Oregon Department of Transportation construction site, against the environmental destruction caused by the freeway expansion in Portland. The claim of responsibility is given on page 11. Mnyi: Rose City Counter-Info 5 March, Berlin, Germany: The Volcano ~Page2~ Editorial After almost half a year of absence, we return with the publication of the second issue of our newspaper, reporting the international insurrectionary actions and the struggles of anarchist prisoners for about the last four months, thus trying to fill a large part of the vacuum left by our absence. Since we are now the only anarchist project in Greece that deals adequately with these issues on the international level and takes care to translate into Greek claims of responsibility, statements and texts of anarchist rebels from all over the world. We are at the doorstep of a new geopolitical order of things and a new technological and _industrial revolution, i, in a phase of history where global power relations are changing again, and therefore there is a need to have a bridge of communication between affinities from all latitudes and longitudes, since despite the peculiarities of each place, the enemy remains the same: the system of domination called civilisation. The hegemony of the West is fading, its sphere of influence shrinks as the power of other states such as Russia and especially China increases. The struggle for technological development is perhaps the only front of this heating cold war that the West can hope to gain some superiority. However, regardless of the winner, the course of the techno-industrial civilisation will be the same; artificial intelligence and the new technologies that promise to further connect the natural with the digital world, such as the internet of things, will continue to grow until they too become an indispensable part of our lives, setting the way for a more inhumane technocratic regime where the governance and the enforcement of order will be guided by data science and algorithms, the surveillance of our lives will become more intrusive and domestication and repression more effective. Digitilisation, changes in labour relations, the reduction of rights, gentrification, and, in general, the policies that are being followed in recent years, with their main tool being the successive states of emergency that impose on us with the pretext of the memorandums, the refugee issue, covid, etc., are the first steps of this great socio-economic transformation. Wolfi Landstreicher: A Non- Primitivist Critique of Civilization [excerpt] Excerpt from a text written for the Anti-Civilisation Gathering that took place near Barcelona in 2007. We present it here as a supplement to the anti-civilisational discussion that is part of this issue. An anarchist and revolutionary critique of civilization does not begin from any comparison o other societies or o any future confrontation, confrontation, with the immediate reality of civilization in our lives here and now. It is the recognition that the totality of social relationships that we call civilization can only exist by stealing our lives from us and breaking them down into bits that the ruling order can use in its own reproduction. This is not a process accomplished once and for all in the distant past, but one that goes on perpetually in each moment. This is where the ideal. It begins from my But no matter how much the world changes, it remains the same in its core; a world built in the systematic exploitation and oppression of human and non-human beings, alienation and subjugation of individuality, and in the plunder of nature, a reality that is being perpetuated, expanded and is evolving ever since the first cities and the first states began to emerge, in other words since the beginning of civilisation. No matter how many empires were born and died, no matter how many old religions were replaced by new ones, or how many traditions have changed, how many revolutions have been done, this core remains unchanged. By making this finding, we are released from the toxic feeling of hope and we are no longer satisfied by the illusion of a better tomorrow" (or a "better yesterday that must become tomorrow” in the case of primitvists). But we do not choose the — unfortunately popular -~ path to resignation. Repeating the words of the conspiracy of Cells of Firer “As anarchonihilists we hate both the hand that holds the whip and the back that endures it and passively accepts flagellation without reacting.” Disobedient people have always existed and will always exist in every society, who, armed with negation, dare to take life into their own hands, defying fear, shame and any other psychological or material means that are being used in the name of the false idols of law and morality. Individual rebellion is a natural consequence of life in a society and, anyhow, the comerstone on which the conditions of mass uprisings are built. Thus, anarchy is not placed somewhere in the vague future, but is immediately experienced here and now with every act of disobedience, defiance and rebellion, acts that are not motivated by a utopian vision but stem from the total negation of the existing. To become wild again, to embrace our individuality, and to attack on the structures, institutions and symbols of power that are permanently attacking our lives, bring life to anarchy as a liberatory process. Under this perspective, the separation between the means and the end, and the concepts of victory and defeat become meaningless. But in order for our attacks to truly become thorns in the flesh of this monstrosity called civilisation, communication, organisation and coordination at an international level is required. Although the attacks by the Informal Anarchist Federation have been significantly reduced lately, endeavours such as the “Switch Off! The System of Destruction” in the German-speaking parts of Europe show that the informal organisation of affinity groups is still a relevant and effective model of action. ‘This campaign was recently launched by a call of anarchists, autonomists and social revolutionaries for offensive mobilisation against every company, industry and infrastructure is responsible for the destruction of the environment (i.e. all of them). Since then, countless arson attacks and sabotages have disturbed the smooth operation of the capitalist / techno- industrial system and caused damages worth million of euros. This campaign begins to expand to other corners of the Earth, such as the US and Chile (sce page 9). Without international counter- information projects this would have not been possible. Beyond that, something often overlooked, is the need to develop a strategy for our atiacks. That is why we include some discussions in this issue around this topic. But it is necessary to know how the world is changing nowadays, as we have mentioned before, so that we can recognise what will the new vulnerabilities of the system be, which of the old vulnerabilities will have been enhanced against atiacks, how will the methods of repression against us change, and how our methods of action will need to be changed correspondingly. We are aware, of course, that the ideas mentioned in this text need more pages to be explained adequately. We refer the interested reader to the publications of our project. Here we summarise these ideas to set a framework around which we hope that this newspaper is read. Already, as we gladly observed, the first issue had some influence on the practical level, and this gives us more courage to continue our project regardless of the pressures of our personal lives. For anarchy, nihilism and individualism Athens: Claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on the machinery of the Elikonos Station In a society that champions the urban landscape as the sole way of existence, our freedom and our very essence endure relentless oppression day after day. To turn a blind eye to this truth is to allow this tyranny to thrive and progress. It’s degrading to merely endure this survival state instead of truly living. We must rebel against it by from your emancipation. anarchist way of conceiving life comes in. In each moment, we need to try to determine how to grasp back the totality of our own life to use against the totality of civilization. Thus, as Armando Diluvi said, our anarchism is essentially destructive. As such it needs no models or programs including those of primitivism. As an old, dead, bearded classicist of anarchism said “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge”. And one that can be put into practice immediately. (Another dead anti- authoritarian revolutionary of a generation or two later called passionate destruction “a way to grasp joy immediately”). any means necessary. Therefore, on 26/5, we executed an incendiary attack on the equipment situated at the construction site of the Elikonos station within the forthcoming line 4 of the metro. ‘We harbor no delusions that this strike will halt the advancement of the new line project, yet we grasp that it represents a siride in the correct direction. Every development zone of this nature leads to the gentrification of the surrounding locality, causing small enterprises to flounder and rents to soar to exorbitant levels. It is our obligation to stand as the barrier against this dystopian future until total We stemly assert that the metro in Exarchia Square shall never come to fruition. Both it and the uniformed enforcers upholding it shall meet a fiery demise. RAGE AND CONSCIENCE, NEGATION AND VIOLENCE, FOR THE DIFFUSION OF CHAOS AND ANARCHY ’UNTIL CITIES AND THE CONTEMPORARY WAY OF LIFE ARE ERADICATED Anarchists](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 2.png)
![Athens, Greece: Claim of responsibility for the arson of five private school buses At dawn on Thursday 14/3 we carried out an incendiary attack on 5 buses at the Kanasi private school on Taxilou Street in Zografou. The result was the total destruction of the buses as well as damage to the building itself. Even at the operational level, the school program was completely disrupted. First of all, we want to make it clear that we are not in favour of either private or public-state education. The purpose of this education system is to "domesticate”, the civilising process through the consolidation of values and principles belonging to the system of domination and to produce disciplined slaves, loyal citizens. The way of teaching is fully standardised and sterile, cut off from lived experience, focused on the well-being of the techno-industrial system. Every trace of initiative and creativity is neutralised by making it difficult to develop and sharpen critical thinking. Another goal of the education system is to construct personalities entirely in harmony with regulatory standards and norms implemented through the punishment-reward dipole. The school directly introduces you into a predetermined lifestyle impregnated by the misery of routine and given meaning by wage slavery. At the same time, it forces you to comply with a model of power relations based on the hierarchical figures of teachers and principals who are subsequently replaced by the petty bosses, the disgusting politicians, the judges, the cops, and by any privileged person of the system. This is the school and the deprived life pattern that promotes which perpetuates human alienation. In conclusion, the school contributes to the construction of a decapitated society that is made up of obedient and easily manipulated citizens, who comform with their declining "life". This consent and these resignations for us constitute real death. For these reasons, every school, every university and every educational institution in general should become “ash. In addition, we would like to understand that we do not share the position of some anarchists who are limited to a "struggle" for "rights" bestowed by the state, so that they can taste social acceptance and the possibility of gaining political influence within the micropolitical circles of the universities. The media immediately shaped a climate of fearmongering and the police made blind moves that reeked of despair in order to calm social discontent. Specifically, they went on an raiding operation of the student residences on Olov Palme detaining and eventually arresting people who were simply staying there. Then, while finding and collecting things that are completely legal, they presented them as potential incriminating elements and made a false image of an "arsenal’ and “hideout of hooded invididuals". At the same time, in Thessaloniki, police raided with no reason the Aristotelian University and arrested 49 students in the squatted area of the university. In this way, the “regulators of the law and order" are praised while their actions are in fact completely fruitless, nevertheless disorienting and directing the opinion of society. State and capitalist targets are available everywhere, all that remains is to constantly attack them. ’UNTIL THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE, THE CAPITAL, AND SOCIETY Anonymous individuals ~Page3~ Jan D. Matthews: The Role of Schooling in Society (First chapter of the essay “Toward the Destruction of Schooling”) “When examined, answer with questions” Graffiti Paris, 1968 Most people don’t like being told what to do. Any institution that aims to structure and regiment a person’s life is, to a certain extent, in conflict with that person. The interesting thing is that that person is not always in willful conflict with the institution. Those who are obedient and fulfill their role as students understandably try to ignore the negative effects their schooling is having on them. But who would honestly deny that these effects are quite visible? Students are taught, through the process of schooling, to be conformist, unimaginative, docile, and a great many other things that are by and large considered virtues in the working world. Stay this way and you may never feel good about yourself, but you will be congratulated by authority figures for the rest of your life. I think that the antagonistic feelings that people have toward school reflect what schools are trying to do to you. Our present situation in which compulsory schooling appears to be so natural has a historical context; the forces at work and reasons why we spend so much of our lives in school can only be adequately explained from a perspective that looks at schooling historically in terms of the means employed and the ends desired and looks at where these institutional designs leave the individual caught up in school. Such a perspective can be revolutionary only if it identifies with the individual caught up in school — with their needs and desires, their anger and frustration. We must look at how schooling fits into the whole of society and what sort of social relationships and institutions are hinged upon keeping this individual — you, for all practical purposes — acquiescent. The problem, namely, that most people do in fact do what they are told, is a problem with the totality civilized social relations. Schooling is a fundamental process of our society. It can be understood as the ensemble of techniques by which a society instructs the young in the knowledge, values, and attitudes necessary for becoming responsible members of ~society, reproducing the dominant social order. The bells, the classes, the rules, the discipline — all are important aspects of a controlling process aimed at molding the individual into a form more desirable to others — to authorities. Schooling, like work, is based on coercion. Generally speaking, one does not do schoolwork because the experience itself is rewarding. One does not do schoolwork on one’s own terms. Also, there is a carrot or a stick guiding your progress — usually both. Max Stirner had it right when he said that “the school question is a life question.”" The most important life-skill taught in schools is subservience. It is absolutely essential to all hierarchical ~ social systems. Education, as William Torrey Harris (U.S. Commissioner of Education at the turn of the century) once defined it, is “the subsumption of the individual.”? Nobody is absolutely free of social pressures, material forces, outside influences. But it does not follow that we should submit to the ideal of the individual’s “adjustment” to the social terrain: behavior modification administered by the guardians of the Republic. There is an essential tension here: the tension between unique individuals and the social institutions that prevent their self- determination. The necessity of schools is deeply ingrained in the modem psyche. Implicit in the acceptance of any modernpolitical ideology is the assumption that the individual exists to serve the common good or some higher principle exterior to personal subjectivity — in fact, this seems to be the basis of all ideology, all political systems, all forms of rule. So, proceeding from this assumption, the sufficiently schooled person — the university student, for example — assumes the thinking of a social planner with regard to all political questions. Critical thinking is so discouraged that many are virtually incapable of taking an anti-political ~stance against all the moral baggage of formal ideology, against the totality of “mental production”.” Alexander Inglis had the following to say about this aspect of schooling: “It must be recognized that in American society each individual must be not merely a law-abiding citizen but also to some extent a law-making citizen.”* In a democratic state, social ~stability rests principally on the internalization of the values behind the rules, the morality behind its reification in law. One can dislike school and still believe in its mythology — most people do. The stereotypes of good students, bad students and every other category of student conceal the question of the desirability of systems of grading and categorization. “Banalities, due to what they conceal, work for the dominant organization of life words will not cease to work until people do,” wrote Mustapha Khayati.® The mythology of this dominant organization of life consists of myths such as the necessity of being schooled in order to learn, the detached objectivity (and intelligence!) of the intellectual, and many others, all reflecting capitalist values — the most salient of which is Progress. Group (Vulkangruppe) carried out an arson attack on a high-voltage pylon resulting in a nine day long shutdown of the largest ‘Tesla car manufacturing plant in Europe Mnyi: Sans Nom 6 March, France: As an act of solidarity in the fight against the construction of the A69 motorway, an NGE machine was vandalised. Source: Communiquer Relayer Informer Combattre 6 March, Cardiff, Wales: Anarchists demonstrated outside Cardiff Probation Office in solidarity with political prisoner Toby Shone. For the past three and half years, Cardiff’s probation officers have worked with the police to target Toby because of his anarchist ideas. Source: Dark Nights 7 March, Patras, Greece: Butcher shop vandalised by the Anarchist Counterattack. “...veganism as a personal choice and nothing more i reformist. Meticulous ~ veganism and its emphasis on nutrition, facilitates its assimilation by capitalism and techno-industrial civilisation, as yet another lifestyle choice, which does not attack any system of torture, no industry embraces respect for life and freedom. We do not consider anyone consumable therefore we do not perceive anyone as a product. At the same time, because consuming plant products (and consumption more broadly) is not an act of resistance, we aim to not participate in anthing that creates and sustains product- consumer relations. Furthermore, the struggle for total liberation is classless, so we do not discriminate between big industries, small neighbourhood fur shops and any boss who profits from the confinement and abuse of animals. That is why we advocate veganism as a form of practical refusal to entrench authoritarian attitudes and relationships in our daily lives and we support every attack, expropriation, sabotage, etc. On all the individual parts of the same system...” Source: Athens Indymedia 7 March, Italy [Brenner Trial]: The trial of the fighters who participated in the aggressive demonstration against the building of an anti-immigration wall on the Italian-Austrian ~ border has been completed. Several of the comrades have been acquitted of all charges, the majority will receive a new appeal decision to apply substitute measures and/or to redetermine their sentence Source: La Nemesi 8 March, Athens, Greece: During the nationwide student demonstration against the establishment of private universities, the Jenin Faction carried out an attack with molotov bombs on the NYX Esperia hotel of Israeili interests and on the police squad that was guarding it. The attack was carried out in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Source: Athens Indymedia 9 March, Athens, Greece: The group Carnava-listes broke into an AB Vasilopoulos supermarket in Ilioupoli and expropriated basic necessities, distributing them to the neighbouring street market. Source: Athens Indymedia 11 March, Vecqueville, Grand Est, France: The Informal Pirate Action Group to Sink the Ferry attacked the main supply line of the FERRY-CAPITAIN industrial foundry, temporarily shutting down its operation and damaging several machines. ‘The reason for the attack was](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 3.png)
![institution who died some time ago) and caused riots just a few days before 29 March, anniversary of the young fighters. Inyi: Informativo Anarquista 20 March, Athens, Greece: Breaking attack on an AB Vasilopoulos, an Attica Bank and three ATMs by the same anarchists who carried out the attack on Sklavenitis and three ATMs on 14 March against the new Penal Code. Source: Athens Indymedia March 22, Pernier, Auvergne-Rhone- Alpes, France: Unknown persons broke the front door of the town hall of Pernier and threw stones at its main window. Source: Sans Nom March 23, Athens, Greece: The group Pro-Palestinian Saboteurs sabotaged the water supply of a hotel owned by Israeli real estate investment firm Zoia, cutting off the supply and cementing the clock. The claim of responsibility is on page 18, Source: Athens Indymedia March 23, Brest, France: A newly installed camera in the town square, which had caused resentment in the neighborhood, was covered with paint. Source: Bourrasque-Info 24 March, Hamburg, Germany: An arson attack on a Noske-Kaeser company vehicle, a supplier to the Bundeswhr (German Armed Forces), the United Kingdom Navy, the Israeli Army, the South Korean Army, the Australian Army, and others. “What can we do about wars that are co-financed and supported here? For example, attacking the infrastructure here that enables these wars..... [...] Let’s fight for antimilitarism, let’s oppose companies that make millions from death and war, which enrich themselves from the misery of humans, animals and nature. Antimilitarism is found in the streets and nights, actively practiced. Words and discussions are not enough for us, which is why we actively oppose war, exploitation and the accumulation of goods by a few, based on death, abuse of others and the environment. With all the means at our disposal....” Source: German Indymedia 24 March, Wallonia, Belgium: Twenty- one ticket machines vandalized at various train stations between Liége and Charleroi. The methods used, such as inserting insulating foam or screws into the bank card reader, were previously used again in the area. Source: Sans Nom 25 March, Basel, Switzerland: A soon-to- be-occupied new building in St Johannspark, owned by the real estate company “SF Urban Properties AG”, was attacked with hammers and paint as part of the fight against gentrification. Source: Barrikade 26 March, Mllan, Italy: : A sledgehammer attack on a RE/MAX real estate office in Milan’s Via Noe in solidarity with the Palestinian people. RE/MAX buys houses of evicted Palestinians and rents them to Israeli settlers. “.After almost six months of massacres and horrors in Gaza and the West Bank, we do not want to forget that the accomplices of the genocide are also here...” Source: La Nemesi 26 March, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: An arson attack on the Gladiator Fight Academy combat sports center, causing hundreds of thousands of euros in damage, a month before its opening. The Gladiator Fight Academy was a neo-Nazi attempt to strengthen its presence in the region by creating a ~Page6~ dedication to the anarchist consciousness is what gives us the opportunity to experiment with our ideas, to evaluate our efforts and to repeat them from a better starting point next time. Because, we are and we will be here, we are not passers-by, we continue to walk on the path we have chosen freely. they don’t bring down their life not even by a centimetre dying, they bite death in its larynx (G. Lykiardopoulos) Anonymous submission From Athens Indymedia, 06/06/24 Liceo de Aplicacion (20 March) Hooded students break through the fortifications of their school gate to take to the streets and riot in memory of comrade Deli. The gate had been fortified over the summer with steel plates, padlocks and barbed wire in an attempot to prevent the students’ struggle. ol Pudahuel, Santiago (23 March) Snapshot from the actions for the Day of the Young Fighters Clashes outside Instituto Nacional in Santiago (16 April) ) Concepcidn (26 Anpthiov) Action in solidarity with anarchist and Mapuche prisoners. Chile: A spring full of fires, clashes and agitations Anarchic memory connects different generations of comrades through action, fuelling the struggles of the present and inspiring the struggles of the future. Below we present some snapshots of recent incidents and agitations that took place in Chile on the occasion of various anniversaries of black memory (and more), as well as some statements by Chilean comrades where the memory of the fallen fighters becomes fuel for their subversive words. In particular, the following events had happened: 8 March: Agitation in Liceo de Aplicacion in memory of comrade Samu, one year after his death, and of Cristian Valdebenito who got killed by cops four years ago, at the time of the social ~ antisocial insurrection. + 18 March: Commemoration event for Javier Recabarren Olivares, an eleven years old antispeceist anarchist who died nine years ago by being hit by a bus. « 20 March: Demonstration and agitation at Liceo de Aplicacién in memory of comrade Deli, a student from the same school who died some time ago. The same day an agitation was held in the streets of Santiago in solidarity with anarchist prisoner Marcelo Villarroel. 26 March: Agitation in the Victoria area of Santiago, for the 31 years since the killing of Norma Vergara Cceres from cops. + 27 March: Riots outside various high schools and universities in Santiago for the Day of the Young Fighters. + 29 March: Events, demonstration and riots in Santiago’s Pudahuel commune for the Day of the Young Fighters. The same day an agitation was held at the outskirts of Santiago against drug trafficking, the state and the police. + 16 April: Riots outside Instituto Nacional + 18 April: Commemoration event for the fallen urban guerilla fighters Erick Rodriguez and Ivén Palacios « 26 April: Fiery barricades and propaganda action oy Concepeién (second largest city in Chile) in solidarity with anarchist and Mapuche prisoners. 1 May: Violent demonstrations in Santiago for May Day and for the 15 years since the death of comrade Mauricio Morales. There had been clashes, arsons, roadblocks, lootings and sabotage. « 8 May: Commemoration event outside San Miguel Prison for Mauricio Morales and the 81 prisoners who died in a fire that occurred in that particular prison. « 15 May: Firey barricades in Concepcion in memory of comrades Mauricio Morales ke Pablo Marchant. « Fiery barricades, clashes, arson attacks and agitations in a weekly basis throughout May in memory of comrade Mauricio Morales. Monica Caballero: “If the streets could speak” 1If the streets of this city could speak, they would tell us stories of barricades and fire, mixed with sweat, blood and tears. In those stories would be the petite and resilient figure of Luisa Toledo, who with a couple of words moved generations, and who, no matter how many years passed since the murder of her sons Eduardo and Rafael by the police, never stopped taking to the streets to commemorate their death and above all their lives as young fighters. Today, March 29th, new stories of barricades and fire will emerge, those that will rise up for Eduardo and Rafael, and in turn for the dozens of young fighters who decided to take the step towards the offensive attack against domination. The stories of yesteryear of the young people who fought the dictatorship give us a rich and nourishing path, in which today’s young people grew up and lay new paths for those to come. 1If the streets could speak, they would tell the stories of the young fighters of yesterday and today, and we must do our best to make them tell the stories of those to come. Just as Luisa Toledo did with blood, sweat and tears. Only those who forget die die. May the barricades never stop burning. Monica Caballero Sepilveda Anarchist prisoner](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 6.png)
![people are now homeless and 50,000 families are on a waiting list for an indefinite period to obtain social housing. In the meatime, thousands of buildings are empty and abandoned, rents are soaring, squatting of empty spaces is criminalized and the poor are displaced and the poor are displaced and dispersed to the outskirts of the city. [...] By attacking some real estate agencies, we wanted to attack the quintessential symbol of housing as a commodity...” Source: Stutt 1 April, Paris, France: About forty ATMs were vandalised in the Paris suburbs with glue and foam. On some of them were witten the slogans “H.S.” and "No to the Olympics". Source: Indymedia Lille 3 April, Tours, France: The brasserie "Saint-Germain" is attacked with stones by unknown persons, causing damage to the facade of the building. The reason for the attack was the fact that the brasserie hosted an event by the far-right group Des Turs et des Lys on 15 March. Source: Attack 4 April, Marseille, France: Unknown persons attacked the Félix-Pyat police station with Molotov bombs. Two patrol cars were completely destroyed by the flames. Source: Sans Nom 4 April, Munich, Germany: An excavator, two loaders and a Unimog (Mercedes off-road van) were set on fire in the Meillerweg area with six-figure damages. This place, apart from being a stone’s throw from the Nymphenburg Palace, the summer residence of the former rulers of the Kingdom of Bavaria, it is also the site of the S-Bahn, the city’s second main metro line. ‘The "ghosts of Munich", as journalists and cops call them, are responsible for around thirty devastating attacks from 2019 to date, responsible for damages costing at least 20 million euros. “..They set fire to power lines and construction equipment, telecommunications antennas and electric cars, railways are also a target of their attacks, as are geothermal pipelines. Their identity and origin remain a complete mystery. Like ghosts, they leave no usable trace or claim of responsibility...” Source: Sans Nom 4 April, Le Lamantine, Martinique, Caribbean: An unknown number of people broke the windows of a France Travail building and vandalised its offices. France Travail is the French state agency responsible for the unemployed. The service has come under frequent attacks in recent times, including stone throwing, graffiti and anonymous letters containing bullets. Source: Sans Nom 4 April, Athens, Greece: A group of anonymous anarchists attacked Mediterranean College and IEK AKMI, two of the most well-known private schools in central Athens, with sledgehammers. The facades of both buildings were broken, and at IEK AKMI, computers and screens inside were also broken. “..The constitution is something that is written by a select few for themselves, and creates an illusion of freedom and security in the modern world for everyone else. Here a need of the capital is recognised (private higher education institutions) and the stat This is why our position is not confined to the role of the guardian of Mauricio Morales on the map of the international anarchist offensive From Informativo Anarquista, a counter-information project, we write these words 15 years after the death in action of comrade Mauricio Morales, Punki Mauri. Death is an event that inevitably takes us away from the body of the person who has passed away. But as quickly as the body withers, the common imagination turns to the dawn and unfolds the culminating fact of death towards hundreds, if not thousands, of memories, testimonies and actions that forge in the skin a vitality capable of driving a heart that beats in all directions. Memory is not an exercise in unanimity or homogeneous plenitude. It does not always have the same points of reference or the same explanations. What it is, however, is collective, at the same time as it integrates shades and particularities that respond to their own places, to solitary or loose voices, which converge and meet on certain occasions between one and the other. In this sense, anarchic memory has been a point of connection, amotive for encounter that gives way to the search for and rapprochement of affinities with the decisions and paths that a companion built n life. Mauricio Morales reflects, in part, what we want to say; how the heart of a dead comrade can be pumped with insistence. That, despite the pain and sadness, the persecutions and imprisonments that this brought, networks were built, complicities were strengthened and his anarchic memory continues to this day. We agree with the now extinct counter- information project Liberacién Total (2011), that ‘death is an unbeatable obstacle, but in contrast, forgetting and passivity are walls that we know how to break down. Not only in relation to the comrade Mauri but to every insurrectionary spirit that has to live through the hardest circumstances of the paths we choose in life”. In the exercise of their memory, the counter-information pages crossed communicational frontiers and provided an effective means of dissemination through which comrades from all over the world learned of Mauri’s death. The publication in them of words written by squatted social centres, friends, publishers, prisoners, action groups and Mauri himself, made possible the translation into different languages and the externalisation of an offensive memory to an international affinity. Consulting a legend of black internationalism in the book Mapping the Fire (2012), one reads, no more and no less, that the pages of counter-information “are the messengers of our decision to get off the train of commitments and start a global journey of anarchy without a return ticket”. The propagation of Mauricio Morales’ ideas, thoughts and contradictions was and is precisely the sign of a passage without a return ticket, especially because the comrade declared that the ideas coming out of our mouths were not enough, but the ones prevailing in active hands. Thus, the ltalian counter-informative project Culmine understands that (...) the affinity that we feel with Mauri is not only limited to the nihilistic aesthetics of his thoughts, no! We know that we have in front of us a comrade in action, one who has always confronted power o its ultimate consequences”. Contagious of this spirit, in 2009, in a vindication of the explosive attack against the Chilean consulate in Greece, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire wrote that there are “people we have never met, but we know that we always look at things from the same perspective’. And a year later, also in reference to the Mauri, Marco Camenisch* expressed from a prison in Switzerland that ‘every death of ours, every failure of ours becomes a victory in the “strategic field” of the offensive’. As a striking element of the black memory, we deny the rise of martyrs, heroes or untouchable figures, connecting with our dead comrades as a living whole that navigates agitated waters. 15 years after the attempt to attack the nest of jailers; the wall paintings, books, activities, counter-information projects, burning tyres, bottles flying in the wind, whistling bullets, incendiary or explosive planning, continue to carry the name of Punki Mauri through the streets, across languages, kilometres and generations. Nothing s over, everything continuous. May) A death in action is an eternal call to fight. Santiago University (28 May) In memory of Mauricio Morales and Together we can continue to keepo ensuring that anarchy lives on Informativo Anarquista May 2024 Francisca Sandoval Colombia: Rioting in memory of Mauricio Morales On May 22, hooded students set up barricades and clashed with the Unit of Dialogue and Maintenance of Order (UNDMO) using Molotov bombs outside the National Pedagogy University, in honor of Chaos Day and anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales. According to a photojournalist, the action was also taken against the national government. In the midst of conflict, some of the hooded students parked a bus at the university entrance to prevent entry, a situation in which UNDMO responded by opening fire, injuring several students.](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 8.png)
![~Page9~ The conflict in Abya Yala and its proximitity with the “Switch Off!” campaign Anarchist words concerning the necessary struggle for the Earth Faced with devastation: sabotage and war! As the comrades who have raised and formed part of the campaign have understood it, “Switch Off! The system of destruction”] consists of the “attack against companies and infrastructures that feed the ecological catastrophe across the world”. Here also, in Abya Yala (ancestral name for the territory known as America), multiple struggles for the defense of the carth have been developed, from the precolonial peoples who continue fighting, to new anarchic perspectives that tip more and more into the struggle for the earth. While we haven’t been able to stop the ecological catastrophe entirely, we can find concrete examples of territorial victories that have managed to stop, expel or at least considerably push back the materialization of extractivist projects, like the resistance and armed offensive of diverse mapuche organizations in Wallmapu. The struggles in different latitudes aren’t detached form one another and they aim at the same enemies. This is why we believe it favorable to make the “Switch Offt” campaign our own, endowing it with our own territorial circumstances to avoid overlooking our particularities. The history of Abya Yala has been characterized by pillage and assault by various imperialist hands and powerful economic groups, both local and transcontinental, belonging to the same machinery of exploitation and theft. Today we continue 1o be the comerstone of capitalism and its new twist “green capitalism”, the supposed “sustainable” version, finding ourselves with new interests perpetuating ecocide. One of these is lithium extraction that today plays a fundamental role for the reformulation of the system of depredation as was once the case with oil, whose disastrous consequences we already know all too well. This is how the parasitic logics continue over the territories ~called “developing” or “third world”, that at the cost of destruction make possible and sustain the status and quality of life of the “first world”. But faced with the manifold forms of exploitation, the expressions of combat and resistence carried out in different territories are also manifold. This is demonstrated by the communities inhabiting the amazon jungle that confront deforestation, displacement and the destruction of ecosystems, a situation that is repeated across the continent. Also the various environmental struggles, especially pursued by state intelligence, its armed wing and the corporate hitmen, showing the discomfort and annoyance that these conflicts generate in power even when they are partial or even addressed only by legal means. Likewise, there is the anarchic offensive that is part of these conflicts, as in the north of the continent where the comrades of the “Coordinadora de mujeres anarquistas por la defensa de nuestro cuerpo-territorio” [Coordination of anarchist women for the defense of our body-territory”] sabotaged the works of the ecocidal “Tren Maya™ project, or the resistance in the defense camp in the “Atlanta Forest” where a police training center is being built, and where anarchist comrade Tortuguita was killed in the course of the clashes. 3 On the other hand, the situation in the south of the continent is very similar, in the territory dominated by the chilean state, where these atiacks spread and expand: in the Maule region, the “Grupo Auténomo Revolucionario del Maule” [Maule Autonomous Revolutionary Group] attacked machinery of a concrete and asphalt factory 4; in the Metropolitan Region the “Célula Andrkika Boske Negro” [Black Forest Anarchic Cell” attacked a telecommunications antenna located on an urban hill 5, the “Célula_Insurreccional por el Maipo — Nueva Subversién” [Insurrectional Cell for the Maipo — New Subversion] attacked a concrete factory 6 and a refrigeration factory and slaughterhouse 7, both located along the same river, and the “Nuevas Subversiones Andrquicas — Célula Alex Nuiiez — FAI” [New Anarchic Subversions — Alex Nuiez Cell — FAI] attacked the “Oxiquim” 8 factory with explosives, just to name a few of the claimed actions of the last period. This is not to leave aside or devalue other attacks that, without being explicitly for the earth, target and attack the same power that degrades the planet. Considering ~ our similarities and particularities, as well as the urgencies and necessities that bring us together, we find it relevant to adhere actions against the machine of degradation on this continent and the world to the campaign “Switch Offt, with the goal of strengthening our struggles and deepening the combat against the existent and its historically internationalist character, visibilizing on a global level the urgency of negating this reality in practice with everything we have at hand, demonstrating through action that its possible to fight, returning the pain to those responsible, the creators of these conditions, and that it’s possible to embrace a dignified life that breaks with the misery in which they want to suffocate and bury us. “Remember that the mechanisms of subjugation and control surround us. Wherever you are, you don’t need to venture very far to find the veins of industry; go and cut them”. We redeem the memory of the comrade Emilia Bau, who was assassinated in a conflict for the defense of the water in Mapuche territory, the comrade Santiago Maldonado who became part of the Mapuche struggle and who was disappeared by the Argentinean state in the course of confrontations with police, and later found dead. Also the weichafes Matias Catrileo and Pablo Marchant, who were assassinated by the police in Wallmapu while ~exercising territorial control and sabotage, respectively, against colonizers and loggers. Freedom to anarchist, subversive and ‘mapuche prisoners!! For anarchy, for the earth, for our lives Insurrectional Cell for the Maipo — New Subversion ANTE LA DEVASTACION DE LA NATURALEZA SABOTAIJE Y GUERRA LA LUCHA P 1 =— OR LA TIERRA NO TIENE BANDERAS NI FRONTERAS QD) (0 B * the constitution, but we attack the foundations of this repressive charter of democracies and beyond. In the previous part, the role of guardian of the constitution was assumed by the domestic left. They are using it as an arow of their propaganda, while their quiver was empty. It is also known that the leftist students conduct an institutional struggle, such as decisions of general assemblies motivated by their union vehicles and by making behind-the- scenes deals with each other, the factions try every time to patronise any struggle that breaks out within universities. A typical example is the "mass" general assemblies that took decisions about weekly squats, in which only the factions with their own schedule and own locks could participate, making the means of struggle by squatting completely meaningless, since lectures and examinations were carried out without hindrance in almost all departments. ‘This had not only undermined the tool of struggle of squatting, but also left a legacy of disuse of this means. The fetishisation of ’06-’07 and of the struggles that were preached in every 3rd row of their texts, makes them look like outliers and not as pioneers, as they want to present themselves. This stems from their basic mode of action, which aims only at extracting political surplus value for the benefit of their organisations..." Source: Athens Indymedia 4 April, Patras, Greece: MacDonals store vandalised in solidarity ~with the Palestinian people. The group then set up barricades with the intention of clashing with the police, who, however, did not show up and instead carried out massive and indiscriminate searches of people in another part of the city, hauling in and thrashing unrelated people. Source: Athens Indymedia 4 April, Montreal, Canada: Anarchists armed with various tools vandalised the MCGill University administration building in response to the administration’s move to call the police on a person who drew a graffiti. Source: Montréal Contre-Information 4 April, Costa Brava, Catalonia: One day after a protest by farmers, an unknown person sabotaged and disabled three wells that were previously responsible for salinising the region’s aquifer. Their recent reopening had caused strong reactions. Source: Indymedia Barcelona 6 April, Agen, New Aquitaine, France: A core of the GIEC signing as Groupe d’ldéalistes Enrayant le Capitalisme sabotaged an NGE construction site by adding abrasive products to the tanks of the machines located in the area. “...This disarmament comes after months of fierce struggle at Crem’Arbre against the brutality of power. In recent days, one of the branches of this power (France’s Biodiversity Office) has recognized the illegality of cutting down trees occupied by squirrels [...] The State has been striking for months. Now, a beautiful spring day gives five months of reprieve — temporary of course. Nothing surprises us anymore with the absurdity of this system, and for that we respond with words as well as action...” Source: Sans Nom 6 April, Brest, France: The surveillance camera in the town square was covered with paint again.](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 9.png)
![Source: Bourrasque-Info 10 April, Athens, Greece: Responding to the call of the First Sector of the Anti- Fascist Pyre, the Sector of the Municipal Faction "Anti-Fascist Athens" attacks with a low-powered incendiary device the entrance to the residence of Dimitroulias Georgios (Faidriadon street 2) who was a municipal councilor candidate under Kasidiaris, former deputy leader of fascist Golden Dawn. “.It is up to the anti-fascist movement to prove to the garbage in question that by taking off the T-shirts of Golden Dawn and wearing suits they will have the same painful end as they had on the stree Source: Athens Indymedia 10 April, PéBneck, Thuringia, Germany: A massive 70m tall telecommunications antenna was destroyed by an arson attack, cutting off communication in the area and causing 500,000€ in damage. Source: Sans Nom 10 April, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Ile- de-France, France: Fiber Internet cabinet set on fire. This is the fourth arson attack on optical fibers in twelve months in the Parisian region. Source: Sans Nom 10 April, Athens, Greece: Breaking and painting of the office of the rector of the Agricultural University of Athens by a group of anarchists as a reaction to the cooperation of the rectoral authorities with the police to suppress political events and self-organised ventures in universities and other places. Source: Athens Indymedia 10 April, New York, USA: OMNY machines, surveillance cameras, and card readers were sabotaged in response to the growing use of surveillance technologies on New York City citizens and the increased presence of police and National Guard in the subways. Source: Instagram 11 April, Valence, Auvergne-Rhone- Alpes, France: A hooded man with a ladder damaged the surveillance camera installed in the central square of the Valensolles district and fled before police arrived. The ladder was abandoned. Source: Sans Nom 11 April, Chile: Under heavy security measures, anarchist prisoner Ménica Caballero was transferred from San Miguel Prison to the San Joaquin Women’s Detention Center. Her statement is on page 27. Source: La Zarzamora 12 April, Labége, Occitania, France: 5G antenna set on fire. “...We have decided to burn down one of the infrastructures of the ongoing war. 5G is a basic infrastructure for the mandatory digitisation of our lives, this new world that we are being sold with technological developments. 5G is a key infrastructure for a new world under control, under constant surveillance. An infrastructure that allows us to be overwhelmed by more and more interconnected commodities to buy. An infrastructure for modern, remotely controlled, intelligent and advanced warfare. An infrastructure for exploitation, at the expense of the impoverished of this earth and the resources of this planet. Energy, cobalt, lithium, and so on. Let us respond with resistance to the total war raging against us. We would also like to pay tribute to the worker who died during the late winter at a construction site for the third metro line, a stone’s throw from the burnt antenna.” Source: Indymedia Lille ~Page Angels with needles poked -year e Orig:y "And et the u d eat fingzr blind Saclp e, 2088, Tl 20 Weflhd amonm lmm ks&m’m g digd igggison, known for his radl Afiiflalaadm\mg éfindm qffisg;‘o?’fiffi B! 10~ perl Tla r Consequence: of his an’eds Here, however, 1 will refer to the political dimension of his action, which is rather overlooked. 1 cri l]erl reen anarchism. It igwel rown t & anu m us ‘os’msuns!gve‘ope y Kaczynski were not original, but discreetly stolen by Jacques Ellyl. I would add that he often echoes in his work what st the techpripdsirighavienforhidhdecah madsiaie ¥duafso ancoraraess el he i cchesioiic P il B4 ,g t..waym,. 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![organs of the system, it is essential not to attack them in terms of the system’s own values but in terms of values inconsistent with those of the system. For example, if you attack the electric-power industry on the basis that it pollutes the environment, the system can defuse protest by developing cleaner methods of generating electricity. If worse came to worse, the system could even switch entirely to wind and solar power. This might do a great deal to reduce environmental damage, but it would not put an end to the techno- industrial system. Nor would it represent a defeat for the system’s fundamental values. To accomplish anything. against the system you have to attack all electric- power generation as a matter of principle, on the ground that dependence on electricity makes people dependent on the system. This is a ground incompatible with the system’s values. 7. Biotechnology May Be The Best Target For Political Attack Probably the most promising target for political attack is the ~biotechnology industry. Though revolutions are generally carried out by minorities, it is very useful to have some degree of support, sympathy, or at least acquiescence from the general population. To get that kind of support or acquiescence is one of the goals of political action. If you concentrated your political attack on, for example, ~ the electric-power industry, it would be extremely difficult to get any support outside of a radical minority, because most people resist change to their way of living, especially any change that inconveniences them. For this reason, few would be willing to give up electricity. But people do not yet feel themselves dependent on advanced biotechnology as they do on electricity. Eliminating biotechnology will not radically change their lives. On the contrary, it would be possible to show people that the continued development of biotechnology will transform their way of life and wipe out age-old human values. Thus, in challenging biotechnology, radicals should be able to mobilize in their own favor the natural human resistance to change. And biotechnology is an issue on which the system cannot afford to lose. It is an issue on which the system will have to fight to the finish, which is exactly what we need. But — to repeat once more — it is essential to attack biotechnology not in terms of the system’s own values but in terms of values inconsistent with those of the system. For example, if you attack biotechnology, primarily on the basis that it may damage the environment, or that genetically-modified foods may be harmful to health, then the system can and will cushion your attack by giving ground or compromising — for instance, by introducing increased supervision of genetic research and more rigorous testing and regulation of genetically-modified crops. People’s anxiety will then subside and protest with wither. 8. All Biotechnology Must Be Attacked As A Matter Of Principle So, instead of protesting one or another negative consequence of biotechnology, you have to attack all modern biotechnology on principle, on grounds such as (a) that it is an insult to all living things; (b) that it puts too much power in the hands of the system; (c) that it will radically transform fundamental human values that have existed for thousands of years; and similar grounds that are ~Page 13~ inconsistent with the values of the system. In response to this kind of attack the system will have to stand and fight. It cannot afford to cushion your attack by backing off to any great extent, because biotechnology is too central to the whole enterprise of technological progress, and because in backing off the system would not be making only a tactical retreat, but would be taking a major strategic defeat to its code of values. Those values would be undermined and the door would be opened to further political attacks that would hack away at the foundations of the system. Now it’s true that the U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to ban cloning of human beings, and at least some congressmen even gave the right kinds of reasons for doing so. The reasons I read about were framed in religious terms, but whatever you may think of the religious terms involved, these reasons were not technologically acceptable reasons. And that is what counts. Thus, the congressmen’s vote on human cloning was a genuine defeat for the system. But it was only a very, very small defeat, because of the narrow scope of the ban — only one tiny part of biotechnology was affected — and because for the near future cloning of human beings would be of little practical use to the system anyway. But the House of Representatives’ action does suggest that this may be a point at which the system is vulnerable, and that a broader attack on all of biotechnology might inflict severe damage on the system and its values. 9. Radicals Are Not Yet Attacking Biotech Effectively Some radicals do attack the biotechnology, whether politically or physically, but as far as I know they explain their opposition to biotech in terms of the system’s own values. That is, their main complaints are the risks of environmental damage and of harm to health. And they are not hitting the biotech industry where it hurts. To use an analogy of physical combat once again, suppose you had to defend yourself against a giant octopus. You would not be able to fight back effectively by hacking at the tips of its tentacles. You have to strike at its head. From what I’ve read of their activities, radicals who work against biotechnology still do no more than hack at the tips of the octopus’s tentacles. They try to persuade ordinary farmers, individually, to refrain from planting genetically-engineered seed. But there are many thousands of farms in America, so that persuading farmers individually is an extremely inefficient way to combat genetic engineering. It would be much more effective to persuade research scientists engaged in biotechnological work, or executives of companies like Monsanto, to leave the biotech industry. Good research scientists are people who have special talents and extensive training, so they are difficult to replace. The same is true of top corporate executives. Persuading just a few of these people to get out of biotech would do more damage to the biotechnology industry than persuading a thousand farmers not to plant genetically- engineered seed. 10. Hit Where It Hurts It is open to argument whether I am right in thinking that biotechnology is the best issue on which to attack the system politically. But it is beyond argument that radicals today are wasting much of their energy on issues that have little or no relevance to the survival of the technological system. And even when they do address the right issues, radicals do not hit where it hurts. So instead of trotting off to the next world trade summit to have temper tantrums over globalization, radicals ought to put in some time thinking how to hit the system where it really hurts. By legal means, of course. Place the Blame Where It Belongs: The Green Anarchy Collective Response to “Hit Where it Hurts” by Ted Kaczynski Although the Green Anarchy editorial collective whole-heartedly supports Ted Kaczynski as an anarchist political prisoner, we had serious reservations about running this article due to Ted’s hostility towards feminism and his casual, off-hand dismissal of other liberation struggles which he chooses not to prioritize in his own life. Racism, sexism, homophobia and poverty are not "non- essential issues” to us, as they appear to be to Ted; compulsary heterosexuality, socially-enforced ~ sexual ~ conformity, racism, mysogyny, and class division are all products of a hierarchical, patriarchal power structure, and nome of these problems can ever be fully solved within the context of civilization. It’s not “technology, above all else, which is responsible for the current condition of the world", as Ted claims - it’s civilization/patriarchy -- and if we want to dismantle the technological megamachine that is now devouring the biosphere, then we need to understand how the megamachine came to be, what led to its creation, and how it serves the interests of civilization’s rulers. We ultimately decided to print this article because Ted is a sharp strategic thinker, and because we feel strongly that more discussions like this need to be occuring in the pages of the anarchist press. At the same time, we feel compelled to say that Teds analysis of patriarcchy and civilization is severely lacking, and we take offence to his disparaging use of the queer-identified term "pink,” which is reminiscent of the fairly overt homophobia we have seen in previous pieces by Ted, like Ship Of Fools. Simply and solely removing technology as the total liberatory answer is a limited and mechanistic approach. We face a totality of domination which oppresses all life and we need to try to see the whole picture. For anti-authoritarian transformation, many struggles are necessary and need to be respected along with an awareness of the underlying connectedness. Of course, there can be no doubt that technology is a major link on the chain of our oppression and it’s important that anarchists / anti-authoritarians ~ purge themselves of the liberal belief that technology is "neutral.” There are five books that we can reccomend to our readers that will help get them started on the process of deconstructing their faith in and allegiance to technology. They are: + The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul(out-of-print, but readily available in any good used bookstore), incendiary device in the office of Phoebus Margaritis (1 Paparigopoulou Street), who was also a municipal candidate adviser to Kasidiaris, like the previous target. Source: Athens Indymedia 22 April, Atlanta, USA: Responding to the call for autonomous actions against Cop City on Earth Day, a group of anonymous individuals destroyed ~ five Flock cameras and one APD camera. These cameras are based on artificial intelligence and record a remarkable amount of information, such as a vehicle’s color, model, stickers stuck on a vehicle, as well as information about a vehicle’s route. Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest 22 April, Chile: After upholding the 86- year sentence against anarchist comrade Francisco Solar, the gendarmerie made a new maneuver in the comrade’s prison situation. After remaining in Rancagua Prison’s Maximum Security Unit 2, what would have been appropriate would have been to transfer him to Maximum Security Unit 1 as a convict along with the rest of his anarchist and subversive comrades. But this time, seeking to deepen the legal revenge, the partner is taken to a floor in the same Maximum Security Unit 2 to serve his sentence in an extraordinary regime of punishment and isolation. Source: Informativo Anarquista 23 April, Berlin, Germany: Two Tesla cars set on fire. Source: Sans Nom 24 April, California, USA: Twenty City of Berkeley and UC Berkeley parking pay stations were sabotaged by filling them with inflating foam. “This is our latest contribution to the memory of Rosebud anarchist martyr Abigail Denovo and the defense of People’s Park. If the ity of Berkeley and UCB want to take People’s Park, we will make them pay. Our action is inspired by a similar action that took place earlier this month in solidarity ~with the Palestinian people. Rebel salute to all who are fighting back against the colonial nightmare.” Source: Indybay 24 April, Chania, Greece: The anarchist group Sto Sfyri attacked the Ambasador hotel of Israeli interests with hammers. Source: Athens Indymedia 24 April, ltaly [Operation Scripta Manent]: The Court of Cassation upholds the sentences of 23 years and 17 years and 9 months for Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino. Itis worth noting that in the morning hours of April 22, the DIGOS police forces of Turin imposed 19 preventive measures on comrades who participated in the events of the 4" of March, 2023 march in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, as part of a series of repressive intimidation against those mobilising to support the comrade. Source: La Nemesi 24 April, Rome, Italy: Burning barricades and an attack on a post office and an ATM. Also on the front of the post office was written the slogan “Freedom to Anna and Alfredo”. Source: La Nemesi 25 April, Quebec, Canada: Anarchists claimed responsibility for vandalising Airbnb rentals ahead of Renters’ Day. “...Because we are tired of passing in front of accommodations that, instead of housing our neighbors, serve above all to enrich the owners. We will never again tumn a blind eye to these new buildings that are only used for short- term rentals while we struggle to find aroof over our heads...” Source: Montréal Contre-Information](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 13.png)
![Materializing your dreams Before your action group engages in actions that will be more intensively investigated, it is especially important that you become competent in two operational security practices: DNA minimization protocols DNA minimization protocols (https://www.notrace.how/threat- library/mitigations/dna-minimization-protocols.html) are necessary to avoid leaving evidence at a crime scene. However, these precautions are not perfect, so the action should be conducted in such a way as to leave nothing behind that could have DNA traces on it. I recommend learning and practicing this skill long before you actually need to use it for high-risk actions. Recommended reading: + Resources: DNA topic hitps://www.notrace. how/resources/#topic=dna Surveillance detection If there is no evidence left at crime scenes, and you have established practices that prevent targeted digital surveillance from providing leads, investigators will be forced to use physical surveillance to try to incriminate you. The main goal of physical surveillance is to surveil the suspect during an action (as they did for Jeff Luers [https://www.notrace.how/threat-library/repressive-operations/ca se-against-jeff-luers.html]), and if that doesn’t work, to surveil the suspect while they are preparing for an action (buying materials, doing reconnaissance, etc.), all the while mapping the suspect’s network to find more suspects. Detecting physical surveillance (https://www.notrace.how/threat- library/mitigations/surveillance-detection.html) is a skill that takes a lot of practice, so I recommend that you start learning it long before you actually need to use it for high-risk actions. If you are ever the target of an investigation, this is the only thing that will prevent the police from following you to an action or preparation for an action. Recommended reading: Resources: Physical surveillance topic https://wwiw.notrace.how/resources/#topic=physical- surveillance Action techniques Of course, skills related to action techniques are also important. For example, there are many ways to start a fire. Some are better than others in terms of reliability and effectiveness, but your approach should always be adapted to the specific scenario (target, exit plan, expected response times, etc.). Whatever techniques you end up using, it’s important to stay open to innovation rather than limiting yourself to following a guide. Action technique is also related to operational security: for example, if you decide that the incendiary device(s) need a delay, it’s critical to be very confident that the delay won’t fail, ~Page 15~ as this would leave evidence for investigators to take samples from. Thoroughly test its reliability under the same conditions, and build in redundancy by using multiple delays on each device. Depending on the circumstances and terrain, you may even want to make a plan for noticing if any fires don’t start, such as choosing an exit route that provides a line of sight and pausing along it until you see the light of the flames. Recommended reading: « A Recpe for Leaving No Trace hitps://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/09/a-recipe-for- leaving-no-trace/ « The Simplest Way to Bum a Vehicle hitps://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/08/21,the-simplest- way-to-burn-a-vehicle/ © Warior Up hitps://warriorup.noblogs.org/ Connecting constellations ‘The next step in developing capacity for action requires going beyond one’s own group. This is where things get really interesting: coordination between autonomous groups allows them to accomplish far more than they could on their own, while their autonomy wards off hierarchy and centralization (hitps://dimanche.pm/english.html). OF course, conspiring with more people involves risk and must be balanced with the need for compartmentalization — the need-to-know basis (https://www.notrace.how/threat-library/mitigations/need-to- know-principle.html) can help here. Affinity is the strongest foundation for a common project among these groups — while affinity within an action group is based on interpersonal experience, affinity between action groups is based more on affinity with the project than with each other. The long- term search for affinity beyond your action group is what makes this foundation possible. Informal organization can then grow between action groups, which is a model that has been experimented with since the 705 (https://www.elephanteditions.net/library/toward-a-generalised- attacktoc30). Informal organization is born and shaped by the pursuit of specific goals, such as preventing the construction of Cop City through diffuse sabotage. “It doesn’t have a name to defend or assert, only a project to bring about (hitps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/avis-de-tempetes-to-start- over). ‘This outline touches on what I think are the minimal steps necessary to develop a capacity for hard-hitting action, limited to the topic of acquiring skills. Much more is needed — learning other skills beyond this baseline, experimenting with informal organization while navigating its challenges, ~developing analyses to understand the changing terrain, studying the vulnerabilities of domination, and focusing on all the other aspects that contribute to sustaining and intensifying action. From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest, 22/02/2024 Berlin, Germany: Claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on sixteen Amazon vans Hey Jeff, do you see the clouds of smoke? On the night between 30/04/2024 and 21/04/2024’, with 6 incendiary devices we permanently disabled at least 16 Amazon vans in a company parking lot in Berlin/Thyssenstrae. Notoriously, May 1 is the international day of struggle of the working class. Our gasoline barbecue is meant to incite the struggle against the oppression of people and nature and fuel the inevitable clash between exploited and masters. Ralf Kleber, former head of Amazon-Germany: “We are much more disturbed by a frostbite than a call for a labor struggle by ver.di?” The dismissal or even socialization of large technology companies and global players such as Amazon, Tesla, Apple, Facebook or Google is inconceivable and cannot be a prospect for the exploited. We believe that reforming these companies or making them more “socially acceptable” is futile because their power is too great and the ideas and concepts of humanity inherent in them are diametrically opposed to our idea of freedom. We believe that the desire to scrutinize and control every human thought, every social relationship and even the smallest step in work processes is a threat to life itself. If then even these smallest dimensions are to be controlled and adapted to a predetermined appearance, it is violent domination in its purest form! Often it is the megalomaniac white men who seek to shape and exploit the whole earth according to their patriarchal ideas. All this is called progress, although in reality these patriarchs are only trying to direct society in an all- powerful way toward their abstruse authoritarian visions of the future! Jeff, Elon, Mark, Bill and the like, rest assured that you will not rest! ‘These large corporations plan to dominate, surveil, and exploit people more and more intensively. Their digital networks, algorithms and technologies have become indispensable and permeate all areas of our lives. They affect our existence, our daily lives, our feelings, our thinking, our communication and our social relations. The technological onslaught thus also targets everything that has so far resisted capitalist exploitation. A dystopia that tends toward its fulfillment: endless amounts of data are collected, selected, evaluated and analyzed so as to ensure continuous and real-time analysis of social and relational processes. They must be monitored in order to predict developments and (ir)regularities. Small changes and shocks in the fragile economic market can affect supremacy in the race to maximize profits. H Amazon Web Services (AWS) represents the symbol of the link between the repressive organs of the state and capital. Not thousand reasons to attack the gears of wage-labour...” Source: Indymedia Barcelona 30 April, Volvic, Auvergne, France: Two people broke into the Volvic Water Company plant and set fire to a technical room in the pumping station, destroying equipment and facilities inside. The factory was shut down for the next few days. A slogan was also written in pink paint: “Water extraction? No, but what about the water?" Source: Sans Nom 1 May, Berlin, Germany: At least sixteen Amazon vans were destroyed using six incendiary ~ devices. The claim of responsibility is on page 15. Source: German Indymedia 1 May, Santiago, Chile: Riots and incidents occurred from the morning to the afternoon, as part of the May Day. The carabineros appeared with auras. Hooded anarchists armed with various tools and Molotov bombs clashed with the police, set up barricades, destroyed various shopping areas and threw ~ incendiary devices into Central ~Station. The carabineros arrested sixteen people, including five who were holding firebombs. Source: Abolition Media 1 May, Portland, USA: Dozens of bank buildings, Louis Vuitton, Gucei, Starbucks, and Verizon were attacked during protests, while protesters later threw stones at a police station, causing damage. Also on the same day, an autonomous group attacked a number of AirBnb properties Sources: Rose City Counter-Info and Pugent Sound Anarchists 1 May, Philadelphia, USA: Black bloc anarchists attacked Airbnb accommodations during protests, causing various damages. Source: Philly Anti-Capitalist 1 May, France: In Toulouse, Lyon, Nantes and Paris, there were incidents during the May Day demonstrations, which led to the injury of dozens of police officers, arrests and property damage. In Nancy, after the protests ended, hooded anarchists attacked the bookshop Les Deux Cités, which is a far-right hotbed in the area, destroying the glass and the door and painting the facade with anarchist and anti-fascist slogans. Sources: Attaque and Sans Nom 2 May, New York, USA: Anarchists attacked various heavy machines of Caterpillar, due to the cooperation of this industry with the Zionist regime. “...Caterpillar is clearly an agent and symbol of terror. We strike against it today to show solidarity with those who lost their lives to the Caterpillar D9 armed bulldozer. Since Caterpillar is involved in the war, it can be attacked in any area. We are striking the Caterpillar today to show solidarity and appreciation for the Palestinian ~ fighters who are an inspiration to all freedom fighters around the world...” Source: Abolition Media 3 May, Santiago, Chile: Incendiary agitation in memory of Comrade Mauricio Morales. Source: Informativo Anarquista 4 May, Bern, Switzerland: The area around the Reitschule social center turned into a battlefield. Barricades were set up and there were clashes with the police. Many people who were at the Reitschule contributed to the action. “....Police harass and intimidate people in and around the Reitschule almost every day. They chase them, throw them to the ground, humiliate them, arrest them, lock them inside. The Reitschile was once an autonomous](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 15.png)
![In addition to supplying product components, supply chains must also provide specialized factory machinery. For example, the production of the machinery requied for the microelectronics (semiconductors) used in virtually all military technology is a severe bottleneck causing shortages in this sector. In February 2022, the Department of Defense (DoD) released an action plan for “Securing Defense- Critical Supply Chains” which warns that “the high-tech company ASML (Netherlands) is currently the sole-source for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tools that are required to mass produce semiconductor die in technology nodes below 7nm”. Such consolidation increases solesource risk in the global microelectronics supply chain.” ASML produces only about 40 machines per year (each taking 12-18 months and involving more than 1,000 first-tier suppliers). They have a $50 billion backlog and their closest competitors are a decade behind EUV technology®. All supply chains have bottlenecks, and most have “single points of failure,” it’s just a matter of locating them. The tools to gain this visibility are included in the fild of “supply chain risk management”—our enemies. are publishing much of this research. The same DoD action plan describes “persistent sub-tier’, supply chain vulnerabilities, from raw materials and chemical ~ shortages to critical subcomponents produced by fragile suppliers.” It goes on to provide a high- level overview of supply chain issues for “areas in which critical vulnerabilities pose the most pressing threat”: missiles, batteries, castings, microelectronics, and critical minerals. More recently, for the first time in its history, the DoD released a “National Defense Industrial Strategy” to provide a roadmap for “developing more resilient and innovative supply chains.” Their plans are not infallible—one advisor describes the document as lacking “a focus on long-term solutions to supply chain issues that have plagued the defense industry.” Equally interesting are the publications ~ of RAND’s National Security Research Division, especially those of its National Security Supply Chain Institute. The infrastructure of peace is the infrastructure of war Logistics means the movement and storage of goods between different points in the supply chain (e.g. from manufacturing plants to assembly plants to distribution centers). Logistics works through infrastructure. Not all supply chain_ problems involve ~logistics—for example, a supplier’s factory burning down has nothing to do with whether the component can be moved efficiently, but rather whether it can be produced. ‘The angles of attack can be adapted to the context: a supply vulnerability depends on supplier bottlenecks, and a logistics vulnerability depends on infrastructure bottlenecks. For example, an arms factory may be located in a region with ample infrastructural redundancy that would make sabotaging logistics difficult, but perhaps it has a sole-source supplier. Conversely, the factory may have invested in building a supply chain with significant redundancy, but its product is shipped to market through ports with limited rail connections. Regardless of supply and logistics flows (which, it must be emphasized, are ~Page 17~ generally fraught with severe bottlenecks), a factory needs to be connected to a functioning electrical grid in order to operate, and it often needs to be connected to the Internet via fiber optic cables. Energy and telecommunications vulnerabilities extend far beyond the well-secured perimeter of a factory, decentralized to such an extent that even a militarized police force would be incapable of protecting them. To return to the proposal in “Fragments for an Insurgent Struggle...,” it suggests that an anti-militarist practice could sabotage “the entire logistical system in which these weapons are shipped, loaded, transported by rail or truck, rather than limiting itself to attacks on logistics companies,” as well as focusing on “the frequent freight rail connections of ‘weapons companies’ production sites.” ‘The “dual-use” infrastructure that serves logistics quickly ~ becomes the infrastructure of war when the State goes to war or has to turn against its own population in an insurgency scenario. The text “War Starts Here: Let’s Cripple its Infrastructure Where We Can™ criticizes that “Fragments for an Insurgent Struggle...” leaves out “the most important raw material of war: oil or energy in general. Especially at the beginning of a war, the amount of energy needed to move troops is gigantic, but throughout the war, fuel has to be transported from some stockpile and/or refinery to the front, where it is needed to fuel the engines of the war machines. And especially when a war is not taking place directly in their own territory, but the logistics of supplying the troops with energy pass through this territory, it might be worthwhile to take a closer look at this infrastructure.” In a very inspiring recent initiative, comrades did exactly that” in the context of the EU’s infrastructure of war. Their words are no less relevant here: We encourage people to make their own analyses of the military-industrial complex, its raw materials and its logistics, with no less than its efficient sabotage in mind. We feel the lack of such analysis all the more sharply because we believe that our ability to fight ~ domination (and ~ its wars) is irrevocably dependent on knowing its infrastructures, understanding the mechanisms that make them function and, not least, establishing the necessary skills and a certain routine for attacking identified vulnerabilities. An insurgent against militarism Identifying vulnerabilities is certainly a step in the right direction. Mapping the “defense industrial base” with an eye to its vulnerabilities is an enormous and long-term project that anarchists in the U.S. have barely begun.® An initiative in the German context could provide inspiration: “Attack the Aims Industry’ It collects companies and institutions into the categories of producers, suppliers, logistics, research, financing, and legitimisation. They have written a tutorial sharing their approach entitled “An Introduction to Mapping the Local Ams Industry and its Vulnearble struggle Points.”. As in the *60s, disillusioned soldiers and veterans are well positioned to undermine the military with their access to insider knowledge, and this information would be easier for them to share anonymously if an equivalent project existed for the U.S. context. Studying the enemy to identify vulnerabilities enables a quality of action, but putting that knowledge into practice is what makes it truly consequential. What are the curent obstacles to anarchists developing a capacity for action on a significant scale, organized in small autonomous groups that can coordinate around a particular focus? In other words, what needs to happen for more anarchists to establish the necessary skills and a certain routine for attacking identified vulnerabilities? Only by fostering an incisive quality of action can we hope to bring the factories of death to a standstill, to disrupt the infrastructure of war, and more broadly, to make meaningful contributions to the social upheavals on the horizon. The task at hand is not straightforward, but that does not make it any less necessary. From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest, 02/03/2024 “https://actforfree.noblogs.org/ 2022/04/10/publication-war-against-war/ “Microelectronics ~ products ~ containing silicon die chips are typically described as being manufactured at a certain technology node (e.g., 45 nanometers), which refers to the dimension in nm of the smallest element in a transistor. State- of-the-Art (SOTAY) is currently considered to be <10nm and is used in advanced computing (data centers, artificial intelligence, supercomputers, etc.). State- of-the-Practice (SOTP) is between 10nm- 90nm and is generally what is used in conventional weapons, although today’s SOTA will become SOTP and legacy in the future. The industry needs ASML’s EUV technology to keep Moore’s Law alive (“the number of transistors on microchips doubles every 2 years”), which is necessary for computing to progress. The DoD action plan goes on to say that “although most of DoD’s current systems are reliant on State-of-the- Practice (SOTP) and legacy microelectronics, State-of-the-Art (SOTA) microelectronics are DoD’s primary differentiator for asymmetric technology ~ advantage over potential adversaries.” *hitps://actforfree.noblogs.org/ 2022/09/02/asml-semiconductor- dependency/ “https://actforfree.noblogs.org/ 2022/04/10/publication-war-against-war/ Shitps://actforfree.noblogs.org/ 2023/12/19/ten-t-military-logistics-and- availability-using-the-scan-med-corridor- and-its-current-sub-projects-as-an- example/ 6In Greece, a first notable direction towards this direction is found in chapter “The War Industry in Greece” of the brochure “Against War, Against Peace” (2020), where the addresses of all companies and industries related to the military-industrial complex are listed. “https://ruestungsindustrie.noblogs.org/ “htps://ruestungsindustrie.noblogs.org/ eine-einfuehrung-in-die-kartografierung- lokaler-ruestungsindustrie-und-ihrer- sensiblen-punkte/ facade was painted over using a fire extinguisher, the windows were broken, 500 cockroaches were released into the building and a second fire extinguisher was emptied inside the office. Source: Indybay May 15, Concepcién, Chile: barricades in memory of Morales. Source: Informativo Anarquista May 15, Eugene, Oregon, USA: Breaking attack on Starbucks in solidarity with Palestine. “...While Starbucks isn’t playing a central role in the genocide the Israeli military is waging, Starbucks is symbolic of an AmeriKKKan psyche and economy that fuels imperialism [..] We won’t stand aside and let the AmeriKKKan ~ economy continue unabated when it’s a system founded on and actively fueling colonialism and genocide...” Source: Puget Sound Anarchists 17 May, Santiago, Chile: Another incendiary agitation in memory of Comrade Mauricio Morales. Source: Contra Info 17 May, Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Unknown persons claimed responsibility for slashing the tires of seven military vehicles and seven vehicles of a security company. “...Those who seek to maintain the peace I this time of upheaval are enemies of freedom. Those that carry out the ongoing death march are our top targets.” Source: Unravel 17 May, Paris, France: Four architectural firms were targeted for their involvement in the construction of administrative detention centers. The windows of their buildings were broken, glue was put on their locks and slogans were painted. Source: Indymedia Lille 17 May, Cologne, Germany: The local headquarters of the far-right organization Opus Dei was attacked on the occasion of the international day against hostility towards queer people. Source: German Indymedia 18 May, Toulouse, France: An NGE drilling rig operating on the new Toulouse metro line was set on fire, resulting in the death of a worker who died at the metro construction site on 4 March. Source: Communiquer Relayer Informer Combattre 18 May, Athens, Greece: Anarchists ambushed the police guarding the subway construction site in Exarchia Square and began running in panic trying to escape the fires. The action was done in memory of comrade Mauricio Morales and against the gentrification of Exarchia. The claim of responsibility is on page 7. Source: Athens Indymedia 19 May, New York, USA: A police bus is set on fire in Brooklyn in response to police attacks and repression against people demonstrating against _the Palestinian genocide and against Cop City. “...The NYPD are violent suffocators of the people’s voice and will. They are terrorizers of the homeless in our streets, and are in concert with the genocidal IDF, who train them to better butcher our freedom. They do it all with no consequences in their future and no fear in their faces ~ we can change that with fire...” Source: Never Sleep 21 May, Helikon, Boeotia, Greece: As part of the fight against the destruction of nature and traditional economic activities by wind farms, the Helikonean Wolves once again tore down a wind mast from the area where wind turbines are to be Burning Mauricio](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 17.png)
![installed. Source: Athens Indymedia 22 May, Santiago, Chile: Another day of chaos in Chile’s capital, where anarchists rioted in memory of comrade Mauricio Morales. Source: Contra Info 22 May, Bogota, Colombia: Hooded students set up barricades outside the National ~ Pedagogical University and clashed with police, throwing Molotov bombs. The police opened fire when some of the students parked a bus at the entrance of the campus to prevent entry, leading to several injuries. The action was in memory of Mauricio Morales and against the government. Source: Informativo Anarquista 22 May, Lyon, France: Anonymous activists smashed the windows of DETS, the state agency that funds emergency accommodation and s responsible for housing the homeless. “They are the ones who, together with the prefecture, chose to leave 14,000 people on the streets. In Lyon you have to wait 5 years for social housing, and 3 years for emergency \accommodation.” Source: Indymedia Lille 22 May, Barcelona, Catalonia: Once again Caixabanc ATMs were targeted. Source: Indymedia Barcelona 23 May, Toulouse, France: A 5G antenna in L’Union, in the northern suburbs of ‘Toulouse, was destroyed by arson. “For capitalism to expand it needs flows of goods, managers and labor, flows of energy and communication. The third metro line, the A69 motorway, the Toulouse-Bordeaux LGV line and the 5G installation are all new infrastructures that serve the unbridled accumulation of capital.” Source: Indymedia Lille 24 May, Lacanau, New Aquitaine, France: A new 5G antenna that was scheduled to be raised the same day was destroyed by an arson attack before it could be installed. Source: Sans Nom 24 May, Lacroisille, Occitania, France: A GIEC cell signing as Groupement dInterdiction d’Ecocide Cosmique destroyed a dump truck and an excavator with arson near a construction site on the A69 highway. Source: Sans Nom 24 May, Barcelona, Catalonia: Another Caixabanc attack was reported. This time a building and the bank’s ATM in Santa Coloma de Gramenet were targeted. Source: Indymedia Barcelona 2425 May, Santiago, Chile: Over the course of two days, students from three different high schools took to the streets, set up barricades, hung banners, threw leaflets and clashed with carabineros throwing Molotov bombs in memory of Mauricio Morales. Source: Informativo Anarquista 25 May, Barcelona, Catalonia: Caixabanc ATM vandalised on Rambla de Catalunya. Source: Indymedia Barcelona 26 May, Leipzig, Germany: A day before the start of the trial of two comrades charged with conspiracy to commit a crime, an arson attack on a federal police vehicle was carried out by an anonymous group as an act of solidarity. Source: knack[punkt] 27 May, San Francisco, US Bank vandalised in solidarity Palestine. Source: Indybay 27 May, Portland, USA: An unknown person shot several surveillance cameras in various areas of the city, destroying them Chase with ~Page 18~ Athens, Greece: Claim of responsibility by the Pro- Palestine Saboteurs for the sabotage of an Israeli hotel While Palestinians die of thirst, Israeli tourism businesses do gold jobs in the Greek territory, such as in Athens, where the position of occupations that have offered refuge for the oppressed have taken luxury accommodation for tourists. It is another form of convention and colonialism, in which Israeli entrepreneurs are learned. As a symbolic movement of solidarity with the Palestinian people, we sabotaged the supply of water to one of these colonial hotels in Exarchia (zoia) by cutting the supply and cementing the clock. The Israeli Zoia Property Investment manages at least 19 buildings in Athens. Sagi Rubin, an executive of the business, is in the investment as one of the largest in the Greek market. Israel, in the context of the genoconal warfare launching in the i Gaza Strip, controls the flow of water. It is obvious how this control is absolute power over the life and death of the Palestinians in this piece of land. In addition to the flow it can also control the quality of the water, which is infected. The sources of drinking water in Gaza were already limited before the new outburst of genocide. Drilling from neighboring states, such as Israel, have almost drained the aquifer. After October 7, Israel cut off the supply of water and electricity it controls. Within 5 months of the genocide, Israel has leveled all infrastructure necessary for survival. Now every day, except for the bombs and bullets, hunger and thirst are killing. 1t is a sadistic excruciating weapon that brings slow death. At least 25 people have died of dehydration and hunger, according to Palestinian authorities in the north of Gaza in recent days. For this crime it is certainly not enough to thirst for some tourists or stay unwashed for a few days. This crime calls for VENGEANCE. ‘To sabotage Israeli capital profitability everywhere To block Israeli-Greek alliance Freedom in Palestine For anyone who intends to take action in this direction, the following is the following Israeli interests of Zoia: 25 Metsovo 25, Asclepius 102, Sarantapichou and Kosma Melodou and Straw Radio: Interview with a member of the No Trace Project In 10 March, anarchist radio show The Final Straw Radio (TFSR), based in the United States, published an interview with a memeber of the No Trace Project. It discusses the project’s objectives, threat modeling, state repression, physical surveillance, covert surveillance devices, and much more. Final TFSR: Would you introduce yourself, a psuedonym and pronoun we can use maybe, what part of the world you’re based in and maybe how you got interested in the technical side of activism? Aster: You can call me Aster, my preferred pronoun is the singular they. ’m from Europe and I’ve been involved with the No Trace Project since its beginning about three years ago. If by “technical side” you mean collecting texts and managing a website, Ithink I’ve always liked this kind of work. It’s calm and ordered work. I think in another life I could have been a librarian. If by “technical side” you mean working on the topics of surveillance and security: I think it first started some years ago, when I felt frustrated about how comrades around me approached these topics. 1 felt that they were spending a lot of time thinking about how to fight cops in the streets, the ones you encounter during demonstrations and riots, and not enough time thinking about how to fight the cops in the offices. And the cops in the offices are the investigators, the intelligence analysts, the ones that are often responsible for sending our comrades to jail for long sentences and disrupting our networks. So, I felt like there was a need to spend more time countering this aspect of repression, the surveillance, the investigations. Also, 1 felt like many traditional leftist organizations were working on the issue of mass surveillance, of the “wrongful” surveillance of law- abiding citizens. The revelations made by Snowden in 2013 of the mass surveillance practices of the NSA of course helped to put the focus on that. But I felt like not enough people were working on the issue of targeted surveillance, on what the State does when they target specific people. A number of comrades around the world had of course developed thoughts on this, but I felt that these thoughts were scattered around the Internet and hard to find. So that’s how the No Trace Project started: as a central place to gather zines and articles made by comrades on targeted surveillance, to make them more accessible. TFSR: Thanks so much for speaking with us. Would you talk about the No Trace Project and how it developed? Did it develop out of any particular surveillance coming to light that you’d want to mention? Aster: 1 don’t think it developed out of any specific thing, but I was certainly influenced by surveillance happening around me. Some close offices in Homer 18. Pro-Palestine Saboteurs Call of support for the No Trace Project The No Trace Project is a collection of tools for the assistance of anarchists and other rebels to understand the abilities of their enemies, to undermine attempts to monitor them, and essentially to act without being catched. On their website (notrace.how"), texts, brochures and other media about monitoring, operational security, repressive methods used by the enemy and what measures we can take against them are collected, as well as a database of surveillance devices that has been detected by comrades isprovided. We invite our readers to assist this important project by sending them texts related to these subjects, and/or translating into Greek or other languages the texts already available on the Website, and sending information and photos of each surveillance device, such as microphones, cameras, etc., which you may have identified. The email address of notrace@autistici.org the project is: You can also send your submissions to our own email address, blessedistheflame@riseup.net, to include them in our printed versions, such as in this newspaper. We have already translated and published a brochure ("Who wrote this?") about modern methods of the newspaper, although by mistake we had mentioned the old name of the project, "Centre for Counter- Surveillance Resources". No trace, no case “There is also an onion address for this site. We recommend accessing the site using Tor and, ideally, through the Tails operating system. We also recommend that communication being done through PGP encryption.](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 18.png)
![close friends were facing intense police surveillance and harassment and we didn’, in my opinion, deal with it appropriately, which led to a lot of disruption in our network, and people getting burned out. A distant friend was arrested after their DNA was found on an intact incendiary device. I was particularly frustrated about DNA in general because so many anarchists worldwide were getting arrested, and are still getting arrested, because of DNA traces. And a number of those arrests look like they could be prevented if people were better informed. So, anyway, the No Trace Project started in 2021 as a website that collected resources, zines, articles, about surveillance. The website design was really bad at the time, it’s a bit better now. We were collecting stuff but not writing our own content. Later, we started to feel inspired to write our own content, and we decided to tackle the issue of *threat modeling*. Threat modeling is a formal exercise where you identify the threats you face in a specific context and what you can do about them. So for example, in the context of an action, you identify the techniques that the police could use against you, and how you can protect from those techniques. The result of the exercise, the list of threats, is your *threat model*. In some anarchist circles, there’s this recurring situation where someone asks what security measures they should take in such or such context, for example if they can take their phone to a demo, or what email provider they should use, and people answer “it depends on your threat model”. But how does one determine what s their threat model? What surveillance techniques are available to the police, and in which contexts? And how can we protect against them? In 2023 we added a new section to our website, the “Threat Library”, to try to answer those questions. It’s a work-in- progress, we’re adding content regularly, feel free to check it out Later in 2023 we got in touch with another project called “Ears and Eyes”, a big database of hidden surveillance devices used against anarchists: bugs, hidden cameras, GPS trackers on vehicles. We agreed that it would be good to move their project to our website, so we did that. And 1 think that’s all for the current developments. TFSR: What are some of the shorter and longer term goals of the project? Aster: In terms of shorter goals I would say to keep our website updated, by adding new resources, new content to our Threat Library, new cases to Ears and Eyes. We have several original publications that should be released soon, including an original zine on physical surveillance, and an English translation of a French zine on DNA. Our Threat Library currently lists about twenty repressive operations that have targeted anarchists around the world and I’d like to add more, to reach maybe forty or fifty operations. We’re also working on various translations with the help of external translators, I’m hoping to have our Threat Library translated to French in the next few months, and probably to Brazilian Portuguese at some point. Maybe German too. In terms of longer goals, I guess we aim to become a good resource about surveillance and security for anarchists ~Page 19~ worldwide. I’m not yet sure what this will entail, we’re discovering that as we €0 on. A sort of vision I have is to encourage the creation of small, decentralized groups working on issues related to surveillance and security and then sharing their work with the larger anarchist movement. A bit like affinity groups of action, but for technical research. Like, imagine a group in one country researching cheap ways to hack or take down police drones, or good protocols against DNA traces, or an analysis of thermal imaging used by police helicopters, and then sharing their research publicly so it can be used or expanded by other groups in other countries. Ideally, I’d like our project to encourage that. TFSR: We’ve tried our hand in this project years ago to try to talk through some. technological surveillance issues and ways people were talking about evading them based on a US model, like having easy access to unregistered sim cards and setting up psuedonymous phones, an attempt to normalize comfort around recognizing the methods we understood the state to employ. Technical knowledge and skills are an area that many people don’t think they have a proclivity for and so becomes specialized, but I think of it more as a series of muscles that you strengthen through use as opposed to something innate and inborn. Is there an element of NoTrace.How of hoping to reach a wider audience who may be on the cusp of increasing their skillsets or is it mostly just directed at those technical research affinity groups? Aster: Ah yes, that’s a good question. T think in terms of *content*, we want to focus on sort of higher-end security practices, that are relevant to people who risk being targeted by the State, people who risk years or decades in prison. But we do want to encourage everyone to follow these security practices, or at least some of them, and we do want to make them as accessible as possible. We want to encourage everyone to have good security because, even if someone isn’t doing anything too risky, maybe their friend does, or their friend’s friend. Individual security reinforces collective security. And, just to be clear, this is not just about tech security, the majority of our content isn’t about technology. And while some non-technology ~security practices require developing a specific skill set, for example detecting if you’re being followed by cops, some other just require good communication skills, for example the need-to-know principle, which simply ~states that sensitive information should only be shared when it is necessary to do so, and to the extent necessary. So then there’s the question of how to make our project accessible to a variety of people, how to make it a good place to learn. We try to write our original content in a clear way that doesn’t assume too much prior knowledge from our readers. All of our original content is available as printable zines so it can be read and shared away from computers. And, of course, we want to do translations, a lot of translations. One thing I haven’t talked about yet, that is somewhat related to this topic, is another reason 1 got involved with the No Trace Project: I wanted to codify knowledge that is often transmitted only informally in anarchist circles. At least in the circles where I was active, many security practices were not codified, were not shared in meetings or written down in zines. For example, it took me years to understand the dangers of DNA because it wasn’t a topic that was discussed openly. Security practices were transmitted informally, sure, but that’s not welcoming of newer or more isolated comrades who may not be part of the informal discussions. I’d like our project to be welcoming of those comrades too. TFSR: Yeah, that seems like an important point, the codification as you put it, or at least the bringing of those practices to more peoples awareness. It also seems like there is an opportunity here for spreading the word of instances of movement surveillance and interference, anti-repression organizing and possibly mapping state and para- state strategies and methods so as to build more resilient resistance. Can you talk about this as well as possible repression or shifts in adversarial methodology you all might expect in response to the public exposure of these surveillance methods and tools. Like, could someone face charges for releasing information about this state spying? [please feel free to call out this logic in your response] Aster: Indeed, I’d like our project to help spread the word about specific instances of repression. About instances of repression, many anarchist groups are focused on solidarity and prisoner support, and while I believe this focus is extremely important, 1 feel like sometimes the more factual, technical aspects of repression are neglected. So in relation to instances of repression, I’d like our project to focus on, like: “What happened? What happened for these comrades to end up in jail, or for this promising movement to disappear? If they are able to tell us, can we learn from their experiences?” And 1 guess that showing comrades that we take their experiences seriously and that we are dedicated to learn from them can also be a form of solidarity. About, will the State adapt because we reveal their strategies? I think at a local level, they can adapt. For example if you notice cops following you in the streets, it’s generally in your advantage to not show them that you noticed them, otherwise they will adapt and be more discreet. But at a global level, T don’t think the State adapts well, and when they adapt I think it’s more likely to be because of mew technological developments, for example. At a global level, I think it’s always in our advantage to reveal their strategies. To the question of if someone could get charges for revealing the State strategies? Yes, certainly, people have been charged for that in the past. As always, whether a person will be charged with something has a lot to do with the political motivation of the State to charge them, which can be hard to predict. And of course, we can try to stay anonymous when we reveal State strategies, to make repression less likely. TFSR: A lot of these examples of physical surveillance come from Europe, where you mentioned that you are from. 1 feel like this is the stuff we saw in the USA 15 years ago but doesn’t feel as common these days. 1 know the EU has much stricter privacy laws than the USA when it comes to what data tech companies can track. I and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. Source: Unravel 27 May, Santiago, Chile: Buning of a bus in memory of anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales. Responsibility was claimed by the Incendiary Cell for Individual Action “Severino Di Giovanni” of the Black Revenge / Informal Anarchist Federation (FALIRF). The disclaimer is on page 7. Source: Informativo Anarquista 27-28 May, Saix, Occitania, France: About ten people attacked a construction site on the A69 motorway at midnight with stones and mortars. The gendarmerie appeared after a while and clashed with them. Source: Attaque 28 May, Athens, Greece: The group Kolimeni claimed responsibility for a mass sabotage of over 215 AirBnb key locks in Exarchia that had taken place the previous week, sticking them with glue. “.We will not allow our displacement from the neighbourhoods by~ doing simple actions like the one above but also with all the means of our movement. We live here, we live in the neighbourhoods of downtown Athens, creating relationships of solidarity and collectively opposing the plans of the state and capital, since we, not the investors, know the needs of our neighbourhoods.” Source: Athens Indymedia 31 May, Teulant, Occitania, France: A GIEC ~cell signing as Gauchistes Ingénieur.es en Eviction de Catastrophes set a steamroller on fire at a construction site on the A69 motorway. Source: Attack 31 May, Priva, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France: Major internet outage in surrounding municipalities following an act of vandalism on Orange network cables affecting ADSL and fibre. Source: Sans Nom 31 May, New York, USA: Pro-Palestine protesters stormed and occupied ~ the Brooklyn Museum, resulting in clashes with the police. Source: Never Sleep 1 June, California, USA: Police vehicle set on fire in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance and with students being attacked by police and by pro-Zionists for demonstrating in support of Palestine. Source: Abolition Media 1 June, Le Verne, Occitania, France: Unidentified persons broke into a quarry belonging to the Lafarge group and caused sabotage to the buildings and vehicles there. Source: Attack 2 June, Pisa, Italy: Optical fibre cabinet set on fire with rags and fuel in the Fontina district of Pisa. “...We chose the place because it is located in an industrial area near a Carrefour hypermarket, a robotics laboratory of the Sant‘Anna Institute and the Banco di Pisa. Everyday reality shows us how domination and war are directly linked to the development of these technologies, as the smart extermination of the population of Gaza teaches us. Although the media downplayed the damage by attributing it to a fault, they had to admit that repairs will take a long time. We hope to have thereby spoiled the work of the aforementioned institutes and the celebrations for this hypocritical republic....” Source: La Nemesi 3 June, New York, USA: An anonymous](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 19.png)
![multiple initiatives during the mobilisation of solidarity with Alfredo and other revolutionary prisoners under 41 bis and life imprisonment, those who act against the state and capital have developed such determination that they do not need to be instigated. It is therefore the autonomy of thought and action that must be expressed, not the collectivity and the submission ~to commands. Prisoners are revolutionaries who, like many other comrades, are imprisoned because the state believes that in this way it can give a waming to our struggle, a warning, first of all, to all revolutionary paths and experiences. Any repressive attack by the state — large or small — must be understood in the ongoing conflict, shaped according to its progress, and applied by the repressive mechanism in order to prevent the need for action, trying to discourage any matwity in this direction. We are at a time when it becomes increasingly clear how war is the constituent essence of the state, where the state and capitalist slaughter is the daily reality, where the exploited are slaughtered at work, where governments are moving undaunted into their own spiral. Hence the transfer of Alfredo Cospito to 41bis was also an expression of war policies and should be understood as an act of internal war, with everything that accompanies it. In this context, today’s evolution of exploitation conditions produce a ~Page 27~ humanity always more submissive to capital techniques and deprived of any residue of dignity, is called upon to determine new needs for conflict. The hope described at the beginning of this contribution — the development of new actions for a renewed impulse to act seems necessary, both directly and in § the future. Beyond the quick changes that have taken place in recent years, a text like "Which International?" remains relevant and can become a valuable opportunity for reflection in this sense. Greetings to all attendees and special thanks (o the comrades who promoted the initiatives. Francsesco Rota Update on the trial of the comrade who got arrested for the re- occupation of Utopia A.D. After the [fourth] recovery of the anarchist hangout Utopia A.D. on Friday 21/06, a coordinated police operation took place on Wednesday 26/06 and the hangout was raided by the police, resulting in yet another evacuation of the hangout and the arrest of the comrade. The invasion took place after a complaint that was made by the security guard who, however, received an order from the head of the technical service on the order of the university’s rector Fotis Maris who is hiding behind the guards and is still holding the belongings of the hangout hostage. The sentence that was given to the comrade for DISRUPTION OF THE FUNCTIONING OF A SERVICE is one year in prison without parole, ten euros for each day and the court costs. The comrade made an appeal. The charge of self-redress was dropped since it had been added after the interrogation, without the comrade’s knowledge Everything continues... Solidarity to squats Anarchist Hangout Utopia A.D. Monica Caballero: Autonomy and persistence against prisons Almost a month ago I was transferred to the prison where I will have to serve my sentence, the CPF of Santiago. This prison has a rather atypical structure in comparison to other prisons in this territory, since in some areas it maintains the foundations of the old convent that fulfilled the “correctional work for bad women”, from there different modules and sections have been built. Among the sections that were built to segregate specific groups of women prisoners are the following: Special High Security Section (SEAS), New Hope and Direct Custody. SEAS was created mainly to house prisoners for crimes of political violence in the 90’s. In those years, those prisoners belonged topolitical/military/subversive groups (FPMR, MIR, Mapu-Lautarol). With the release of the political prisoners, little by little, those with a history of escapes and/or refractory to the prison regime and leaders of trafficking gangs began to occupy the High Security Prison. It was not until 2010 that the women prisoners for political violence returned to the SEAS, the first “Bomb Case2” allowed the first anti-authoritarian women to take up the thread of struggle left by the first political prisoners. Over the years the SEAS continued with the same dynamic, until a few years ago where this section is used to keep prisoners while another permanent space is enabled for them. Upon my arrival at this prison, I was informed that the SEAS would return to the place of yesteryear, so if or if I had to be in it. All this came to nothing because today there is a group of approximately 60 women brought from the San Miguel prison, these women live in deplorable conditions. Another of these special modules is “Nueva Esperanza”, which has only and exclusively women for crimes against humanity, all these prisoners were responsible for some of the many atrocities that occurred during the dictatorship, I am referring to torture, disappearances, permanent kidnappings, murders, etc. Most of these women are former members of the EEA.A*** and of the security forces. Although I do not know the living conditions of the torturers, since special care is taken in everything that surrounds them, but even so I would dare to say that they live in a place more like a rest home than a prison. Finally, there is the module that I am currently in, Direct Custody. This section was born out of the need to segregate prisoners for violent and high-profile crimes, and over the years this has been maintained to some extent. This section has also been used to keep very specific cases of women for political violence, among these was a former militant of the FPMR and now me. Since I entered this prison, both my comrades and I have requested through the different bureaucratic instances of the gendarmerie the authorization to continue my university studies, which I started in 2022 in San Miguel prison. This has not been authorized. Alittle more than two years ago, I became the first inmate in Santiago to start university studies while I was in preventive prison. A matter that was not without problems, which one by one were solved thanks o the set of solidary wills that made that until today I am studying my third year as a student in the career of Law. In this prison I have not been able to resume my studies because according to the information provided by the gendarmerie staff, the only thing missing is the authorization of the Regional Director, who can take as much time as he deems convenient to simply manage the continuity of something that has been going on for years. It seems incredible that the facilities are not given and that obstacles are put in the way of something that seems to be as basic and essential as studying, we cannot ignore that the power structures are capable of breaking their own rules over and over again, according to their convenience. What is it that the high command of the gendarmerie fears in order to give course to the authorization that does not allow me to study? Do they have direct orders from the Ministry of Justice or another organism? Or is it that they are apprehensive that if they give the authorization the prison population knows that there is no legal impediment that does not allow them to have higher education while in prison? Or perhaps they are exhausting all instances to prevent a prisoner (which they call common, but they maintain quite “uncommon” regimes) to have legal knowledge? Whatever the answer is, I demand that they comply with their own laws and allow me to maintain my university studies. For this I appeal to all forms of solidarity that can pressure the regional and national directorate of gendarmerie to give course to the relevant authorizations so that I can continue my studies. ‘With all this I reaffirm that for greater degrees of autonomy the only option for those of us who choose the path of denial against domination is the persistent struggle, which would remain within these walls if it were not for the dozens of hands of solidarity. Ménica Caballero Sepiilveda Anarchist prisoner May 2024. COUNTER-INFORMATION PAGES ENGLISH * Abolition Media abolitionmedia.noblogs.org * Act for freedom now! actforfree.noblogs.org * AnarSec anarsec.guide » Dark Nights darknights.noblogs.org Indybay indybay.org It’s Going Down itsgoingdown.org » John Zerzan Anarchist Radio johnzerzan.net/radio/ June 11th junel1.noblogs.org » Never Sleep neversleep.noblogs.org, Philly Anti-Capitalist phlanticap.noblogs.org » Puget Sound Anarchists pugetsoundanarchists.org * Rose City Counter-Info rosecitycounterinfo.noblogs.org * Scenes from the Atlanata Forest scenes.noblogs.org * Sprout Distro sproudistro.com * Unravel unravel.noblogs.org * Warrior Up warriorup.noblogs.org, * Warzone Distro warzonedistro.noblogs.org * Winter Oak / Acorn winteroak.org.uk » Anarchist Library Touchpaper touchpaper.noblogs.org » Brighton Anarchist Black Cross brightonabe.org.uk FRENCH AND ENGLISH * Montréal Contre-Information milcontreinfo.org, FRENCH * Attaque attaque.noblogs.org, Indymedia Lille lille.indymedia.org Indymedia Nantes nantes.indymedia.org Information Anti-Autoritaire Toulouse et Alentours iaata.info » Marseille Infos Autonomes mars-infos.org * Sans Nom sansnom.noblogs.org * Stuut stuutinfo GERMAN Barrikade barrikade.info knack [punkt] news knack.news](blessed-is-the-flame-2-blessed-is-the-flame 27.png)
hitps://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net x Project for the diffusion of anarchy and counter-information blessedistheflame@riseup.net x Issue #2 — July 2024
FOR ANARCHY AND NIHILISM
BLESSED IS THE FLAME
MARCH - JUNE 2024
Mauricio Morales
present!
15 years after the attempt to
attack the nest of jailers; the
wall paintings, the books, the
activities, the counter-
information projects, the burning
tyres, the bottles that are flying
in the wind, the whistling bullets,
the incendiary and explosive
mechanisms, continue to carry
the name of Punki Mauri through
the streets, across languages,
kilometres and generations
Nothing is over, everything
continues
A death in action is an
eternal call to fight
It is still time to
generate and
strengthen offensive
complicities, to keep
alive the anarchic
action. To keep alive
the memory of those
who went on the
offensive, to be an
embrace in solidarity
with those who are in
the dungeons of
capital, to contribute
in some way to break
its precious social
peace.
From the claim of
responsibility for an
incendiary attack by the
Incendiary Cell for the
Individual Action “Severino
Di Giovanni”, Black
Vengeance / FAI-IRF, page 7
«Mauricio Morales on the map of the
international anarchist offensive»,
page 8
CELL “ABELE RICIERI FERRARI":
«...In a present like the current one in which every revolutionary hypothesis
seems like a vain chimera, we have decided to continue fighting: they may
have deprived us of the hope of a radically different world but not
of the thirst for revenge we feel towards those who perpetuate
oppression...»
From a claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack of a private vehicle of a carabinieri, page 4
New vindictive maneuvers in
Francisco Solar’s prison situation
(Counter-Info Column, page 13)
Moénica Caballero transferred to
CPF prison. Obstacles to continuing
her studies
(“Autonomy and
persistence
against prisons”, page 27)
The sentences of 23 years and of 17 years
and 9 months have been finalised for Alfredo
Cospito and Anna Beniamino respectively.
Fiery barricades and destructions in Rome
accompanied by the slogan “Freedom to
Anna and Alfredo”
(Counter-Info Column, page 13)
In order to hit the system What could equip anarchists to
Whleret'F hurts, y°“r'1‘.e§dfl:° 7 carry out more significant strikes,
ssyifecm'ififle:o‘il:'cécofi, Iy to hone a quality of action tat
which it will fight to the finish. goes beyond the symbolic? [...] To
For what you need is not focus on well-conceived attacks
compromise with the system that target vulnerabilities in the
production and infrastructure [...]
but a life-and-death struggle.
“Ted Kaczynski: Hit where it “Making our actions count”, page 16
hurts”, page 12
COUNTER-INF
28 February, Be German: Daniela
Klette, a former militant of the Red Army
Faction, is captured by special police
forces, ending a manhunt that lasted over
thirty years.
Source: Abolition Media
28 February, Quebec, Canada:
Anarchists once again attack the
construction site of a Northovolt electric
car bater factory. Large steel spikes were
placed in the various paths used by the
machines, and the remaining trees were
spiked to maximise the chance of
damaging the machines.
“...We must remember that it is
only in the city that the electric car
can claim to be green. All around,
there are mines, always on
indigenous lands, all over the
world. It’ the toxic Rouyn-Noranda
refinery. It’s the extensions of ports
along the St. Lawrence River. From
Africa to South America, it’s
executions of trade unionists and
defenders of nature carried out in
the name of Canadian mining
companies...”
Source: Montréal Contre-Information
29 February, Toulouse, France:
Anonymous anarchists ~sabotaged the
‘Toulouse-Narvonne railway line as part of
the environmental struggle against the
construction of the AG9 motorway, setting
fire to the cables necessary for the
signaling of the trains, resulting in the
interruption of traffic in the Toulouse-
Castelnodari axis.
«..SNCF (France’s National State
Railway Company) follows the will
of the neoliberal state increasingly
abandons the freight _system, to
favour road transport of goods. The
goal is always the same, to flow
money into the coffers of private
companies (private carriers,
manufacturers and private managers).
‘The song is old now, only the rhythm
has changed a little, it has accelerated
in recent ears.
Increasingly ~ widespread social
poverty is only one of the
consequences of this song, the
devastation of our earth in the name
of profit is another.
We want to salute here the rebels who
in these winter months tried to resist
with anger and determination on the
zad of the Crém-Arbre to the
steamroller of a mafia and childish
system. We imagine that the few
nights in these cabins must have been
very cold and very humid. This is
why we tried through our action to
convey a little warmth to you.
We also do not want to praise trains
and freight, because we consider that
they are part of the same industrial
system, oppressive and devastating.
We will finally say that it does not
matter whether nuclear waste and
weapons are transported by train or
truck, it is through flows that this
system works. And the devastation
caused by rail infrastructure is no less
significant than that of a highway...”
Source: Indymedia Lille
1 March, Hamburg, Germany: A group
of anonymous people equipped with
hammers, paint and tires vandalised the
facades of two luxury real estate agencies
in Elbchaussee and set up a barricade in
solidarity with the approximately eighty
fighters who are being persecuted in the
ongoing Rondenbarg trial for the riots that
took place in July 2017 against the G20
summit
Source: German Indymedia
1 March, Athens, Greece: Incendiary
attack at the home of the police unionist
Theodoros Foukas by the Direct Action
Cells. The responsibility claim can be
found on page 25.
Source: Athens Indymedia
1 March, Athens, Greece: Breaking
attack to new shops in Exarcheia by
anarchists as part of the struggle against
gentrification.
“..Exarcheia as a neighbourhood
and as a place of resistance is
targeted by the state and investors
with the aim of sterilising and turning
it into an entertainment centre for the
rich and the tourists. The “new”
shops are the showcase of all this,
bringing hordes of our political and
class enemies to the neighbourhood.
The bosses get rich and the residents
get kicked out. How much longer will
we tolerate this situation, this fiasco,
the world is angry...”
Source: Athens Indymedia
2 March, Beauvais, France: Unknown
persons set fire to the vehicle of a Beauvais
prison officer.
Source: Sans Nom
2 March, Hadol, Grand Est, France:
Unknown persons set fire to a fibre optic
connection point.
Mnyi: Sans Nom
3 March, Athens, Greece: The Anarchist
Attack Squad attacked the New York
College building in the Taurus area with an
incendiary device using gas cans, causing
damage to the entrance.
“..The Greek state, being a loyal
little dog of the USA, follows and
implements its liberal policies here
as well. More and more aspects of
our lives are commoditised. Free
public spaces are occupied by
tables and seats of “stylish” stores
that only make you want to vomit,
individual and collective freedoms
are suffocatingly restricted in the
name of some “security” and
capital flourishes. Basic social
goods such as health, water,
electricity are privatised and
passed into the hands of the capital.
Large corporations and companies
operating in terms of cartels
attempt to completely dominate our
lives. Universities and education
would not be missing in these plans.
The dirty work in this condition is
done by the entire state apparatus
cooperating with large
multinational universities such as
this one, intensifying more and
more the political conflict with the
universities...”
Source: Athens Indymedia
4 March, Brest, France: A large part of a
branch of the Crédit Agricole bank was
destroyed by arson. The perpetrator, who
was arrested, was also responsible for
another arson attack at the same bank in
December 2023.
Source: Sans Nom
5 March, Portland, HITA: An anarchist
set fire to three machines at an Oregon
Department of Transportation construction
site, against the environmental destruction
caused by the freeway expansion in
Portland. The claim of responsibility is
given on page 11.
Mnyi: Rose City Counter-Info
5 March, Berlin, Germany: The Volcano
~Page2~
Editorial
After almost half a year of absence, we
return with the publication of the second
issue of our newspaper, reporting the
international insurrectionary actions and
the struggles of anarchist prisoners for
about the last four months, thus trying to
fill a large part of the vacuum left by our
absence. Since we are now the only
anarchist project in Greece that deals
adequately with these issues on the
international level and takes care to
translate into Greek claims of
responsibility, statements and texts of
anarchist rebels from all over the world.
We are at the doorstep of a new
geopolitical order of things and a new
technological and _industrial revolution,
i, in a phase of history where global
power relations are changing again, and
therefore there is a need to have a bridge
of communication between affinities from
all latitudes and longitudes, since despite
the peculiarities of each place, the enemy
remains the same: the system of
domination called civilisation.
The hegemony of the West is fading, its
sphere of influence shrinks as the power of
other states such as Russia and especially
China increases. The struggle for
technological development is perhaps the
only front of this heating cold war that the
West can hope to gain some superiority.
However, regardless of the winner, the
course of the techno-industrial civilisation
will be the same; artificial intelligence and
the new technologies that promise to
further connect the natural with the digital
world, such as the internet of things, will
continue to grow until they too become an
indispensable part of our lives, setting the
way for a more inhumane technocratic
regime where the governance and the
enforcement of order will be guided by
data science and algorithms, the
surveillance of our lives will become more
intrusive and domestication and repression
more effective.
Digitilisation, changes in labour relations,
the reduction of rights, gentrification, and,
in general, the policies that are being
followed in recent years, with their main
tool being the successive states of
emergency that impose on us with the
pretext of the memorandums, the refugee
issue, covid, etc., are the first steps of this
great socio-economic transformation.
Wolfi Landstreicher: A Non-
Primitivist Critique of
Civilization [excerpt]
Excerpt from a text written for the Anti-Civilisation Gathering
that took place near Barcelona in 2007. We present it here as a
supplement to the anti-civilisational discussion that is part of
this issue.
An anarchist and revolutionary critique of civilization does not
begin from any comparison o other societies or o any future
confrontation,
confrontation, with the immediate reality of civilization in our
lives here and now. It is the recognition that the totality of
social relationships that we call civilization can only exist by
stealing our lives from us and breaking them down into bits that
the ruling order can use in its own reproduction. This is not a
process accomplished once and for all in the distant past, but
one that goes on perpetually in each moment. This is where the
ideal. It begins from my
But no matter how much the world
changes, it remains the same in its core; a
world built in the systematic exploitation
and oppression of human and non-human
beings, alienation and subjugation of
individuality, and in the plunder of nature,
a reality that is being perpetuated,
expanded and is evolving ever since the
first cities and the first states began to
emerge, in other words since the beginning
of civilisation.
No matter how many empires were born
and died, no matter how many old
religions were replaced by new ones, or
how many traditions have changed, how
many revolutions have been done, this
core remains unchanged. By making this
finding, we are released from the toxic
feeling of hope and we are no longer
satisfied by the illusion of a better
tomorrow" (or a "better yesterday that
must become tomorrow” in the case of
primitvists). But we do not choose the —
unfortunately popular -~ path to
resignation. Repeating the words of the
conspiracy of Cells of Firer “As
anarchonihilists we hate both the hand that
holds the whip and the back that endures it
and passively accepts flagellation without
reacting.” Disobedient people have always
existed and will always exist in every
society, who, armed with negation, dare to
take life into their own hands, defying fear,
shame and any other psychological or
material means that are being used in the
name of the false idols of law and
morality. Individual rebellion is a natural
consequence of life in a society and,
anyhow, the comerstone on which the
conditions of mass uprisings are built.
Thus, anarchy is not placed somewhere in
the vague future, but is immediately
experienced here and now with every act
of disobedience, defiance and rebellion,
acts that are not motivated by a utopian
vision but stem from the total negation of
the existing. To become wild again, to
embrace our individuality, and to attack on
the structures, institutions and symbols of
power that are permanently attacking our
lives, bring life to anarchy as a liberatory
process.
Under this perspective, the separation
between the means and the end, and the
concepts of victory and defeat become
meaningless. But in order for our attacks to
truly become thorns in the flesh of this
monstrosity called civilisation,
communication, organisation and
coordination at an international level is
required. Although the attacks by the
Informal Anarchist Federation have been
significantly reduced lately, endeavours
such as the “Switch Off! The System of
Destruction” in the German-speaking parts
of Europe show that the informal
organisation of affinity groups is still a
relevant and effective model of action.
‘This campaign was recently launched by a
call of anarchists, autonomists and social
revolutionaries for offensive mobilisation
against every company, industry and
infrastructure is responsible for the
destruction of the environment (i.e. all of
them). Since then, countless arson attacks
and sabotages have disturbed the smooth
operation of the capitalist / techno-
industrial system and caused damages
worth million of euros. This campaign
begins to expand to other corners of the
Earth, such as the US and Chile (sce page
9). Without international counter-
information projects this would have not
been possible.
Beyond that, something often overlooked,
is the need to develop a strategy for our
atiacks. That is why we include some
discussions in this issue around this topic.
But it is necessary to know how the world
is changing nowadays, as we have
mentioned before, so that we can recognise
what will the new vulnerabilities of the
system be, which of the old vulnerabilities
will have been enhanced against atiacks,
how will the methods of repression against
us change, and how our methods of action
will need to be changed correspondingly.
We are aware, of course, that the ideas
mentioned in this text need more pages to
be explained adequately. We refer the
interested reader to the publications of our
project. Here we summarise these ideas to
set a framework around which we hope
that this newspaper is read. Already, as we
gladly observed, the first issue had some
influence on the practical level, and this
gives us more courage to continue our
project regardless of the pressures of our
personal lives.
For anarchy, nihilism and individualism
Athens: Claim of responsibility for
the incendiary attack on the
machinery of the Elikonos Station
In a society that champions the urban landscape as the sole way of
existence, our freedom and our very essence endure relentless
oppression day after day. To turn a blind eye to this truth is to allow
this tyranny to thrive and progress. It’s degrading to merely endure
this survival state instead of truly living. We must rebel against it by
from your
emancipation.
anarchist way of conceiving life comes in. In each moment, we
need to try to determine how to grasp back the totality of our
own life to use against the totality of civilization. Thus, as
Armando Diluvi said, our anarchism is essentially destructive.
As such it needs no models or programs including those of
primitivism. As an old, dead, bearded classicist of anarchism
said “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge”. And one that
can be put into practice immediately. (Another dead anti-
authoritarian revolutionary of a generation or two later called
passionate destruction “a way to grasp joy immediately”).
any means necessary. Therefore, on 26/5, we executed an
incendiary attack on the equipment situated at the construction site
of the Elikonos station within the forthcoming line 4 of the metro.
‘We harbor no delusions that this strike will halt the advancement of
the new line project, yet we grasp that it represents a siride in the
correct direction. Every development zone of this nature leads to the
gentrification of the surrounding locality, causing small enterprises
to flounder and rents to soar to exorbitant levels. It is our obligation
to stand as the barrier against this dystopian future until total
We stemly assert that the metro in Exarchia Square shall never
come to fruition. Both it and the uniformed enforcers upholding it
shall meet a fiery demise.
RAGE AND CONSCIENCE, NEGATION AND VIOLENCE,
FOR THE DIFFUSION OF CHAOS AND ANARCHY
'UNTIL CITIES AND THE CONTEMPORARY WAY OF LIFE
ARE ERADICATED
Anarchists
Athens, Greece: Claim of
responsibility for the arson
of five private school buses
At dawn on Thursday 14/3 we carried out an
incendiary attack on 5 buses at the Kanasi private
school on Taxilou Street in Zografou. The result
was the total destruction of the buses as well as
damage to the building itself. Even at the
operational level, the school program was
completely disrupted. First of all, we want to make
it clear that we are not in favour of either private or
public-state education. The purpose of this
education system is to "domesticate”, the civilising
process through the consolidation of values and
principles belonging to the system of domination
and to produce disciplined slaves, loyal citizens.
The way of teaching is fully standardised and
sterile, cut off from lived experience, focused on
the well-being of the techno-industrial system.
Every trace of initiative and creativity is neutralised
by making it difficult to develop and sharpen
critical thinking. Another goal of the education
system is to construct personalities entirely in
harmony with regulatory standards and norms
implemented through the punishment-reward
dipole. The school directly introduces you into a
predetermined lifestyle impregnated by the misery
of routine and given meaning by wage slavery. At
the same time, it forces you to comply with a
model of power relations based on the hierarchical
figures of teachers and principals who are
subsequently replaced by the petty bosses, the
disgusting politicians, the judges, the cops, and by
any privileged person of the system. This is the
school and the deprived life pattern that promotes
which perpetuates human alienation. In conclusion,
the school contributes to the construction of a
decapitated society that is made up of obedient and
easily manipulated citizens, who comform with
their declining "life". This consent and these
resignations for us constitute real death.
For these reasons, every school, every university
and every educational institution in general should
become “ash. In addition, we would like to
understand that we do not share the position of
some anarchists who are limited to a "struggle" for
"rights" bestowed by the state, so that they can taste
social acceptance and the possibility of gaining
political influence within the micropolitical circles
of the universities. The media immediately shaped
a climate of fearmongering and the police made
blind moves that reeked of despair in order to calm
social discontent. Specifically, they went on an
raiding operation of the student residences on Olov
Palme detaining and eventually arresting people
who were simply staying there. Then, while finding
and collecting things that are completely legal, they
presented them as potential incriminating elements
and made a false image of an "arsenal’ and
“hideout of hooded invididuals". At the same time,
in Thessaloniki, police raided with no reason the
Aristotelian University and arrested 49 students in
the squatted area of the university. In this way, the
“regulators of the law and order" are praised while
their actions are in fact completely fruitless,
nevertheless disorienting and directing the opinion
of society.
State and capitalist targets are available
everywhere, all that remains is to constantly attack
them.
'UNTIL THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION
OF THE STATE, THE CAPITAL, AND
SOCIETY
Anonymous individuals
~Page3~
Jan D. Matthews:
The Role of
Schooling in Society
(First chapter of the essay “Toward the Destruction
of Schooling”)
“When examined, answer
with questions”
Graffiti Paris, 1968
Most people don’t like being told
what to do. Any institution that aims
to structure and regiment a person’s
life is, to a certain extent, in conflict
with that person. The interesting
thing is that that person is not
always in willful conflict with the
institution. Those who are obedient
and fulfill their role as students
understandably try to ignore the
negative effects their schooling is
having on them. But who would
honestly deny that these effects are
quite visible? Students are taught,
through the process of schooling, to
be conformist, unimaginative,
docile, and a great many other things
that are by and large considered
virtues in the working world. Stay
this way and you may never feel
good about yourself, but you will be
congratulated by authority figures
for the rest of your life. I think that
the antagonistic feelings that people
have toward school reflect what
schools are trying to do to you. Our
present situation in which
compulsory schooling appears to be
so natural has a historical context;
the forces at work and reasons why
we spend so much of our lives in
school can only be adequately
explained from a perspective that
looks at schooling historically in
terms of the means employed and
the ends desired and looks at where
these institutional designs leave the
individual caught up in school. Such
a perspective can be revolutionary
only if it identifies with the
individual caught up in school —
with their needs and desires, their
anger and frustration. We must look
at how schooling fits into the whole
of society and what sort of social
relationships and institutions are
hinged upon keeping this individual
— you, for all practical purposes —
acquiescent. The problem, namely,
that most people do in fact do what
they are told, is a problem with the
totality civilized social relations.
Schooling is a fundamental process
of our society. It can be understood
as the ensemble of techniques by
which a society instructs the young
in the knowledge, values, and
attitudes necessary for becoming
responsible members of ~society,
reproducing the dominant social
order. The bells, the classes, the
rules, the discipline — all are
important aspects of a controlling
process aimed at molding the
individual into a form more
desirable to others — to authorities.
Schooling, like work, is based on
coercion. Generally speaking, one
does not do schoolwork because the
experience itself is rewarding. One
does not do schoolwork on one’s
own terms. Also, there is a carrot or
a stick guiding your progress —
usually both. Max Stirner had it
right when he said that “the school
question is a life question.”"
The most important life-skill taught
in schools is subservience. It is
absolutely essential to all
hierarchical ~ social systems.
Education, as William Torrey Harris
(U.S. Commissioner of Education at
the turn of the century) once defined
it, is “the subsumption of the
individual.”? Nobody is absolutely
free of social pressures, material
forces, outside influences. But it
does not follow that we should
submit to the ideal of the
individual’s “adjustment” to the
social terrain: behavior modification
administered by the guardians of the
Republic. There is an essential
tension here: the tension between
unique individuals and the social
institutions that prevent their self-
determination.
The necessity of schools is deeply
ingrained in the modem psyche.
Implicit in the acceptance of any
modernpolitical ideology is the
assumption that the individual exists
to serve the common good or some
higher principle exterior to personal
subjectivity — in fact, this seems to
be the basis of all ideology, all
political systems, all forms of rule.
So, proceeding from this
assumption, the sufficiently
schooled person — the university
student, for example — assumes the
thinking of a social planner with
regard to all political questions.
Critical thinking is so discouraged
that many are virtually incapable of
taking an anti-political ~stance
against all the moral baggage of
formal ideology, against the totality
of “mental production”.” Alexander
Inglis had the following to say about
this aspect of schooling: “It must be
recognized that in American society
each individual must be not merely a
law-abiding citizen but also to some
extent a law-making citizen.”* In a
democratic state, social ~stability
rests principally on the
internalization of the values behind
the rules, the morality behind its
reification in law. One can dislike
school and still believe in its
mythology — most people do. The
stereotypes of good students, bad
students and every other category of
student conceal the question of the
desirability of systems of grading
and categorization. “Banalities, due
to what they conceal, work for the
dominant organization of life
words will not cease to work until
people do,” wrote Mustapha
Khayati.® The mythology of this
dominant organization of life
consists of myths such as the
necessity of being schooled in order
to learn, the detached objectivity
(and intelligence!) of the
intellectual, and many others, all
reflecting capitalist values — the
most salient of which is Progress.
Group (Vulkangruppe) carried out an arson
attack on a high-voltage pylon resulting in
a nine day long shutdown of the largest
‘Tesla car manufacturing plant in Europe
Mnyi: Sans Nom
6 March, France: As an act of solidarity
in the fight against the construction of the
A69 motorway, an NGE machine was
vandalised.
Source: Communiquer Relayer Informer
Combattre
6 March, Cardiff, Wales: Anarchists
demonstrated outside Cardiff Probation
Office in solidarity with political prisoner
Toby Shone. For the past three and half
years, Cardiff’s probation officers have
worked with the police to target Toby
because of his anarchist ideas.
Source: Dark Nights
7 March, Patras, Greece: Butcher
shop vandalised by the Anarchist
Counterattack.
“...veganism as a personal choice
and nothing more i reformist.
Meticulous ~ veganism and its
emphasis on nutrition, facilitates its
assimilation by capitalism and
techno-industrial civilisation, as yet
another lifestyle choice, which does
not attack any system of torture, no
industry embraces respect for life and
freedom. We do not consider anyone
consumable therefore we do not
perceive anyone as a product. At the
same time, because consuming plant
products (and consumption more
broadly) is not an act of resistance,
we aim to not participate in anthing
that creates and sustains product-
consumer relations. Furthermore, the
struggle for total liberation is
classless, so we do not discriminate
between big industries, small
neighbourhood fur shops and any
boss who profits from the
confinement and abuse of animals.
That is why we advocate veganism as
a form of practical refusal to
entrench authoritarian attitudes and
relationships in our daily lives and
we support every attack,
expropriation, sabotage, etc. On all
the individual parts of the same
system...”
Source: Athens Indymedia
7 March, Italy [Brenner Trial]: The trial
of the fighters who participated in the
aggressive demonstration against the
building of an anti-immigration wall on the
Italian-Austrian ~ border has been
completed. Several of the comrades have
been acquitted of all charges, the majority
will receive a new appeal decision to apply
substitute measures and/or to redetermine
their sentence
Source: La Nemesi
8 March, Athens, Greece: During the
nationwide student demonstration against
the establishment of private universities,
the Jenin Faction carried out an attack with
molotov bombs on the NYX Esperia hotel
of Israeili interests and on the police squad
that was guarding it. The attack was
carried out in solidarity with the
Palestinian people.
Source: Athens Indymedia
9 March, Athens, Greece: The group
Carnava-listes broke into an AB
Vasilopoulos supermarket in Ilioupoli and
expropriated basic necessities, distributing
them to the neighbouring street market.
Source: Athens Indymedia
11 March, Vecqueville, Grand Est,
France: The Informal Pirate Action Group
to Sink the Ferry attacked the main supply
line of the FERRY-CAPITAIN industrial
foundry, temporarily shutting down its
operation and damaging several machines.
‘The reason for the attack was
FERRY-CAPITAIN’s participation in the
CIGEO nuclear waste disposal project.
“...In 185 years, FERRY CAPITAIN has
fully contributed to the ecological and
social disaster by making possible, with
its tailor-made machines, parts and
tools, the extraction and exploitation of
raw materials from the
subsoil....”Source: Indymedia Lille
11 March, Bremen, Germany: An
anonymous group of fighters threw stones
at the Neustadt police station in solidarity
with arrested militant Daniela Klette.
‘The claim of responsibility is on page 22.
Source: German Indymedia
12 March, Naples, Italy: Anarchist
prisoner Zac (Marco Marino) was
transferred from Terni prison to house
arrest.
Source: La Nemesi
14 March, Athens, Greece: Anarchists
carried out an arson attack on five buses of
the Kanasis private school, in the Zografou
area, resulting in their total destruction as
well as causing damage to the building
itself. The claim of responsibility is on
page 3.
Source: Athens Indymedia
14 March, Henry County, Georgia
,USA: Eight heavy construction machines
of the Brent Scarbrough company,
responsible for te deforestation of the
Weelaunee forest, were set on fire.
Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
14 March, Savery, France: The Bande
d’élans Musqués claims responsibility for
the arson of fifteen Tesla cars that took
place on 6 October, 2023.
“..This world is full of cars and
‘machines of all kinds. Some serve to
move the techno-bourgeoisie, like
the Tesla cars that leave the
factories of one or another of the
richest people in the world. There
are machines for modern warfare,
where humans hiding in an office
use intelligent drones to slaughter
other humans hiding in a trench. In
order for the techno-bourgeois to
move peacefully, fiddling with their
smartphones all day, others must
massacre each other, because
technology does not fall from the
sky: war is fought for it and with it.
The decisive issue of the next
conflicts, beyond their ideological or
ethnic character, is also the access
and control of energy resources and
infrastructures. And the shocks
caused by this already globalized
war will cause the electricity,
convergent technologies and nuclear
markets to grow, while maintaining
those of oil. Tell this to a techno-
bourgeois with his Tesla and he will
probably tell you with a grimace
that he had nothing to do with it,
that he is just an environmentalist
and that you are conspiracy
theorists. However, behind a normal
electric car and the electronic chips
inside it, this is the reality that hides
(that is, that everyone pretends not
o see). Behind every new
technology, there are new slaves,
new wars and the ravages of our
world....”
Source: Indymedia Nantes
14 March, Athens, Greece: Breaking
attack on a Sklavenitis supermarket and
three ATMs in New Philadelphia by
anarchists against the new Penal Code.
“...The Greek state, on 22 February,
passed a new Criminal Code and
Code of Criminal Procedure. A law
that clearly targets the action of our
movement and the survival choices
of the grassroots, providing for
incarceration for sentences
~Paged~
The student, like society, is continually
making progress. The student’s progress,
like that of society, is fundamentally a
domestication of the human animal.
When Derrick Jensen asked himself why
schooling takes so long, the answer he
came up with was straightforward and
truthful: “It takes that long to sufficiently
break a child’s will. It is not easy to
disconnect children’s wills, to disconnect
them from their own experiences of the
world in preparation for the lives of
painful employment they will have to
endure.”® A few centuries earlier,
Immanuel Kant put it more succinctly:
“Man must be disciplined because he is
naturally wild...”” Discipline is at the
heart of the educational enterprise.
Schools are obviously not organized by
the students — they are the population
that is to be controlled, monitored,
measured, and disciplined. Discipline is
“what the factory and the office and the
store share with the prison and the school
and the mental hospital.”® There are
certain rules to be followed and the
student is watched at all times to make
sure she is conforming. Discipline is
essential, but it does not explain all
aspects of schooling. Knowledge, the
commodity that the school deposits in
you or showers you with is something
exterior to the student, who accumulates
knowledge in a process beyond her
control. Knowledge is power, most
commonly to the extent that one can
serve the interests of power and secure a
comfortable or powerful place in the
social order. Foucault pointed out that
power necessarily produces knowledge:
power and knowledge directly imply
one another ... there is no power relation
without the correlative constitution of a
field of knowledge, nor any knowledge
that does not presuppose and constitute at
the same time power relations.” Highly
specialized knowledge of the type that
schools impart reflects complex power
relations hinging on extensive hierarchy
and division of labor. The increasing
importance of schooling in modern
society reflects society’s increasing
totalitarianism, in the sense that more and
more human activities are subordinated
to and conditioned by the advanced
techniques of a technological society
whose driving force is Capital."
It is obvious that any critique of
schooling must have within it a critique
of the social order of which the schools
are a part and vise versa. Schooling
seems to be a positive feedback system:
more and more people go through
schools, capitalism advances, and more
schools are needed to keep people
subservient to the bosses. Education is
such an important “right” for all people
that it “shall be compulsory” according to
Aticle 26 of the 1948 Universal
Declaration ~ of Human Rights."
Education seems to be something that all
the ideologues can agree on. It is
obviously helping people to adapt to the
insanity of modern society. We become
automatons, docile bodies — boring,
dumb, and monotonous from doing
schoolwork with the same characteristics.
By and large, students submit to their
behavior modification and faithfully
reproduce the current social order.
*Max Stirner, “The False Principle of Our
Education,” www.nonserviam.com. This
article was originally published by Marx in
the Rheinische Zeitung. After Stimer wrote
his masterwork The Ego and Its Own (an
excellent book), Marx was so infuriated by it
that he devoted a large (most of the book)
and largely irrelevant portion of The German
Ideology to a critique of Stirner’s ideas.
*John Taylor Gatto, A Different Kind of
Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American
Schooling (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills
Books, 2002), 61 - 62.
*The ideas of the ruling class are in every
epoch the ruling ideas: i.c., the class which
is the ruling material force of society is at
the same time its ruling intellectual force.
The class which has the means of material
production at its disposal, consequently also
controls the means of mental production, so
that the ideas of those who lack the means of
mental production are on the whole subject
0 it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than
the ideal expression of the dominant
material relations, the dominant material
relations grasped as. ideas; hence of the
relations which make the one class the
ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its
dominance.” Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels, The German Ideology (Amherst,
New York: Prometheus, 1998), 67.
“Alexander Inglis, Principles of Secondary
Education (Cambridge, ~Massachusetts:
Riverside Press, 1918),343.
*Ken Knabb ed., Situationist International
Anthology (Berkeley, CA: Bureau of Public
Secrets, 1995), 170175, Situationist
International (1957-1972) was a relatively
small yet influential Paris-based group that
had its origins in the avant garde artistic
tradition. The situationists are_best known
for their radical political theory and their
influence on the May 1968 student and
worker revolts i France. The most
important situationist books are probably
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy
Debord, The Revolution of Everyday Life by
Raoul Vaniegem, and the anthology cited
above.
*Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than
Words (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea
Green, 2000, 102. This book is possibly the
most accessible and convincing eritique of
civilization.
“Immanuel Kant, The Educational Theory of
Immanuel Kant (Philadelphia: Lippincott
Company, 1904), 225.
*Bob Black, The Abolition of Work and
Other ~ Essays (Port Townsend, WA:
Loompanics, 1986), 20. The theme of the
essay “The Abolition of Work,” readily
available on the internet, closely parallels the
theme of this essay.
*Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The
Birth of the Prison (New York: Vintage,
1977), 27.
“Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
(New York: Vintage, 1964).
Uywww.un.org
Rome: Claim of arson attack against a private vehicle of a
carabiniere by the Cell “Abele Ricieri Ferrarri” of Black
International
“Soon we anarchists rush to
the dgger for victory or death,
with petroleum and dynamite,
every class and the
government to eradicate....
Anarchist song
While the Mediterranean is increasingly
a mass grave filled with the corpses of
the oppressed from the south of the
world, Gaza is being razed to the ground
in front of the world’s eyes and the winds
of war are blowing in every corner of the
globe, leading the proletarians of the
whole world to the massacre at the hands
of the bosses' interests, we have decided
to act, to attack. Identifying in the
military of all sides an enemy to be
destroyed for anyone with a desire for
freedom, without neglecting the specific
responsibilities of our local army, we
have decided to direct our hatred and our
revenge against the military of the
Carabinieri corps.
In a present like the current one in which
every revolutionary hypothesis seems
like a vain chimera, we have decided to
continue ~ fighting: they may have
deprived us of the hope of a radically
different world but not of the thirst for
revenge that we feel towards those who
perpetuate the oppression of one class to
another and its defenders (such as the
police) and those who get rich by
depleting the planet in a wicked way.
‘The attack against power in every place
and time, even in a moment like today, in
which repression hits every glimmer of
conflict ever harder and is burying alive
our comrades held hostage in our
country's prisons, it seems to us that this
is the best way to give continuity to the
centuries-old clash between the
oppressed and the oppressors, of which
as Anarchists we feel we are a part of.
Hoping that these flashes of individual
revolt can brighten up this gray and
pacified present, we reiterate that as
anarchists we place the liberating
violence of the oppressed before the
systematic violence of those who hold its
monopoly and we firmly affirm the
legitimacy of revolutionary violence as
an instrument of struggle against state
and capital.
It is in the firm belief in the rightness of
our ideals of freedom and equality that
lies the courage to fight, personally,
choosing to take the knife by the handie
and trying to return, even if in a small
part, the blows inflicted by the enemy.
For these and 1000 other reasons we
chose to attack 1 private car belonging to
a cop using incendiary tools: The choice
to attack in the "private” environment
arises from the desire to make those who
choose to pay the price of their choices in
an increasingly targeted manner defend
the established democratic social order
by wearing a uniform.
COPS, BOSSES AND BOURGEOIS:
YOU WILL PAY HEARTLY AND YOU
WILL PAY EVERYTHING.
We take this opportunity to reiterate our
solidarity with the Anarchists Alfredo
Cospito, Anna Beniamino, Juan
Sorroche-Fernadez, Pierlorenzo Fallanca,
Luca Dolce and with all the Anarchists
seized in state concentration camps
everywhere. You are not alone comrades.
Incendiary greetings to the fugitives, may
life smile on you, we’ll see you again on
the barricades.
Cell “Abele Ricieri Ferrari”
(Black International 1881 — 2024)
29 March 2024
Note from Italian counter-information
project “La Nemesi”: There are errors in
the initial quote. The song mentioned is
“Mano alla bomba”, translation of the
Spanish song “Arroja la bomba”, and the
correct portion of the text is the following:
Soon we anarchists rush / To fight for
victory or death / With petroleum and
dynamite / Every class and the government
to destroy and eradicate. According to what
is known, the ltalian version was published
in “Guerra di Classe”, newspaper of the
Italian Section of the CNT-FAI, Barcelona,
year II, n. 14, 1 May 1937, p. 6, with the
title “Mano alla bomba!” and the VIR
adaptation indication. Theme of the
anarchist anthem “Arroja la bomba” (VIR is
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the pseudonym of Virgilio Gazzoli, an
anarchist from Pistoia). “Arroja la bomba”
was composed during the dictatorship of
Anarchy and
insurrection
Anarchist ideology has some elements that
make it up and are common to all its
tendencies. Antistatism, defense of the poor
and the wronged, opposition to every power,
internationalism, criticism of wage labor,
respect for the natural environment, all-out
growth of man and horizontal organisation
are probably the most basic ones. However,
in this particular text we will deal with five
individual ideological elements that for us
make up the insurrectionary tendency of
anarchy, which we mainly perceive it with a
view of commitment, consistency and
struggle, and less as a brief deafening period
of riots. When we say insurrection we are
not referring so much in a great social
explosion, but basically to the insurrection
of the consciousness of the individual and
the corresponding action and attitude of life
it entails. A time when the wrath and
conflict will diffuse on the road is
legitimate, but much more dangerous to
power is for us the rebellious consciences
and the thousands of daily acts of resistance
and creation born through them.
RUPTURE WITH THE EXISTING
One of our starting points is the rupture with
the existing system of power and
exploitation. We deny the model of life that
was suggested to us since we were young
children: school-undergraduate studies-
postgraduate studies-military service-family
at 30s-career-indifference-tediousness-
retiring-death. Our appreciation for life goes
far beyond this model; we refuse to just be a
few more gears in a vast social machine. We
were born for things much more beautiful,
great and essential; we will not consent to
the elimination of life, we want to
experience our emotions and to develop our
personalities throughout them, with
complete respect for man and nature.
still, we could not be silent in front of
barbarism and injustice where we see them
around us. All the more so since they are
neither accidental nor individual, but are
inherent elements of the system in which we
live. We cannot just look only our own
interest, we do not accept to bow to the
existing so that we can live a quiet life, we
will fight power even if it puts us in
problems. After all, it is mainly a matter of
luck that we are not in the position of the
most oppressed people of this society and
we cannot ignore this in no way.
INFORMAL ORGANISATION
An informal organisation certainly does not
mean non-organisation, nor inadequate
organisation for the sake of our ideological
purity. Informal organisation simply means
organisation without bureaucracy. There are
no protocols and official statutes, there is
only the reconciliation and agreement of the
people who make up the body each time. We
choose this particular form of organisation,
mainly because we believe that if it is put on
the right bases it is the most effective, the
most useful to move forward and the most
dangerous to the enemy. The informal
organisation is flexible, it can change forms
and shapes when necessary, it can operate
immediately without obstacles, relies on the
personal contact and confidence of
individuals, cultivates individual initiative,
seeks organic collective camaraderie.
In additon to the above, informal
organisation does not mean that there can be
no stable forms of organisation, such as
collectives or political organisations. Since
there are people who agree on some basic
principles, it is legitimate to move together
by relying on their agreements, without
binding them eternal. As long as the
agreements and the common desire are
maintained, we move together, in another
case we are looking for new forms and
shapes that our action will take.
‘The struggle continues constantly, based on
the individual faith of each of us. Stable
anarchist structures are merely its
expression. The informal organisation can
include everything in a polymorphous and
flexible way: initiatives on a specific issue,
coordination for a single action, political
groups with long-term horizon, ~group-
comrade communication networks ~ from
different cities, open social structures, few-
member trust groups. LP. All of the above
shapes move parallel to each other, there is
no hierarchy between them except
communication whenever needed,
everything contributes freely to the same
purpose.
DIRECT ACTION
As direct action, we mean the culture that it
considers that there are no ‘mature
conditions” to wait, but the struggle must be
everyday and uninterrupted. Anyone can
offer at any time the best thing they can
give, the enemy is always here and has
never stopped attacking us by all means, and
we must lift up and resist, build our
communities, contribute to eliminate power.
History is unpredictable and the only sure
thing is that we have to influence it
immediately, we cannot let the state and
capital determine it unhindered and one -
dimensionally. Direct action means taking
responsibility for our participation in
history.
Also, it is almost certain that we will never
be able to say that power was permanently
defeated, that every trace of it from the
world was destroyed and now we live in the
era of anarchy. And if that happens, again
we have to be vigilant for the possible return
of power, it will never be time for total
complacency. So this means that the
anarchist struggle is continuous and without
a clear end, it is basically a method of
constant action and not a proposal of
governance. We do not envision as much as
an ideal future society that we ty to
describe, but we are struggling in the here
and now, with whatever means we have,
individually and collectively, to experience
anarchy as much as we can, to eliminate
power from our lives and our societies, to
defend every person who faces injustice and
exploitation
In our opinion, anarchy develops daily
where there are people determined to fight
for it and is not based on large-scale
revolutionary events, which will follow as a
natural consequence of the daily anarchist
struggle and will be memorable moments.
Every anarchist consciousness that is born is
the greatest victory for us. From the
polymorphous sabotage of the existing to
the creation of structures on the bases of
freedom and solidarity, our action must be
continuous and pervasive. Solidarity,
resistance and self -organization are not
theoretical concepts of an indefinable time;
they seek to find their application here and
now.
CRITIQUE OF SOCIETY
Critique on society is the perception that in
the evolution of human history no one is
uninvolved. Indeed, society may be under
Primo de Rivera (1923 — 1930) and was
sung in prisons by imprisoned anarchists.
the
sovereignty of state and capitalism, but on
the one hand it chooses to be compatible
with its submission, on the other it ends up
reproducing many powers within it. In a
world with many elements of barbarism and
violence such as ours, we consider it to be
morally unacceptable to "look at your
business". If no one had ever erected their
stature against the rulers of their time,
humanity would not have taken a step
forward.
Even more, a society that reproduces within
it a, to a non-negligible degree, behaviours
that are patriarchal, homophobic,
aggressive to the weak, competitive
between colleagues, racist, etc., is not
without responsibilities. We are not saying
that it is our main enemy, after all, we have
grown up in this society, but we could only
look suspiciously and critisise it. And
certainly not to change our anarchist
perceptions in order to become liked.
People change and evolve, this is our hope,
this is what we are trying to do and we will
surely keep our doors open to those who
choose to cross them.
EMPHASIS ON THE INDIVIDUAL
The anarchist struggle, in the way we
perceive it, begins and ends in the
individual. His own pain is the cause of our
commitment to anarchist action and his
happiness is our purpose. We are not
interested in reaching a supposed dream
society, we are interested in all people
being able to feel the happiness they
deserve. At the same time, we believe that
each one is particularly important; we do
not nullify the individual for the sake of a
common political vision. We do not stifle
its individual features, but on the contrary,
we enrich our collective shapes. We do not
want a mass of unsully faithful followers of
the revolution, we want a union of
determined people who are fighting for
anarchy with conscience and responsibility.
At the same time, anarchy not only
encourages, but is largely based on the
internal evolution of individuals. It chooses
to believe in their constant rebirth, the
methodical effort to eliminate their
authoritative characteristics, in their ability
to become increasingly responsible,
increasingly companionate, ~ increasingly
sufficient to actively participate in the
processes of self -organization. We do not
accept any external enforcement, so the
only solution we have is the cultivation of
each person's consciousness separately. We
want people who are constantly evolving,
who cultivate their spirit, who develop their
abilities in all areas and shape
comprehensive personalities.
Finally, this is exactly what makes anarchy
particularly dangerous to the enemy: that
every person who is deeply involved in the
struggle makes it absolutely consciously,
relying on their free will. It is not at all easy
to deal with hundreds or even thousands of
people who have decided to continue to
strive and interfere with various social
fields, regardless of the adverse conditions,
persistently and steadily.
They will continue to be there despite the
individual defeats or frustrations, they will
continue to be a threat to any power,
because for them the connection to anarchy
is not only political but also existential. The
exceeding one year in prison,
effectively abolishing ~ probation
except in special cases. A law that
exacerbates the class nature of
Jjustice to the maximum, reinforcing
the existing framework of redemption
of sentences for those who have the
ability and forced labour for those
who are on the social fringes. Its
aggression, cruelty and racism are
clearly reflected in the immigrants.
The law provides for their
imprisonmentand subsequent
deportation in the event of a final
conviction for a felony.
From our side, we do not separate
our action into legal and illegal,
choosing to attack the state and
capital in many ways. Against the
fear and despair they try to wear on
us, we choose to attack. The
landscape of repression is changing
with the new penal code, but targets
are accessible all around us. Let's not
stop hitting them.
For a world of equality, solidarity
and freedom. For Anarchy.".»
Source: Athens Indymedia
15 March, Berlin, Germany: Six
concrete trucks were completely destroyed
and three excavators were damaged by fire
at the A100 motorway construction site in
Kiefholzstrasse. These machines belonged
to the German group HeidelbergMaterials,
the second largest cement producer in the
world, and the second largest responsible
for the destruction of the climate in
Germany. In December 2023, CEMEX,
another cement giant, was active in the
area, where on the 27th of that month it
was attacked, destroying five concrete
mixers, a conveyor belt and a_technical
building, while on 19 January 2024, two
excavators that were on the same
construction site were also consumed by
the flames of fury.
Source: Sans Nom
15 March, Patras, Greece: Breaking
attack on the facade of the company
SPACE HELLAS by anarchists in
solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.
SPACE HELLAS provides control and
surveillance services, cooperating with the
Greek state in police stations, camps, on
the Greek-Turkish border, in ministries and
banks.
Source: Athens Indymedia
16 March, Cenon, Gironde, France: The
Intervention Group for the Extinction of
Construction Sites sabotaged two NGE
machines at the construction site of Cenon
station using various methods such as
cutting cables, jamming locks, etc.
“... Our action is part of a more
general climate of attack on power
structures. Not a week goes by
without a 5G antenna or a police car
burning, without groups - breaking
into companies to sabotage, without
parallel networks being organized to
avoid the influence of the deadly
capitalist world. We know there are
many like us and we don't want to
wait any longer...”
Source: La Grappe
March 18, Quebec, Canada: New
sabotage against Northvolt construction
site destroying local wetlands.
Source: Montréal Contre-Information
19 March, Aude, Occitania, France:
Unknown persons cut railway cables in
two locations; on the Perpignan-Navronne
axis and on the Lesignan-Corbiéres axis,
resulting in long service delays.
Source: Attaque
20 March, Santiago, Chile: Hooded
students of Liceo de Aplicacién took to the
streets to demonstrate in memory of
comrade Deli (a student from the same
institution who died some time ago) and
caused riots just a few days before 29
March, anniversary of the young fighters.
Inyi: Informativo Anarquista
20 March, Athens, Greece: Breaking
attack on an AB Vasilopoulos, an Attica
Bank and three ATMs by the same
anarchists who carried out the attack on
Sklavenitis and three ATMs on 14 March
against the new Penal Code.
Source: Athens Indymedia
March 22, Pernier, Auvergne-Rhone-
Alpes, France: Unknown persons broke
the front door of the town hall of Pernier
and threw stones at its main window.
Source: Sans Nom
March 23, Athens, Greece: The group
Pro-Palestinian Saboteurs sabotaged the
water supply of a hotel owned by Israeli
real estate investment firm Zoia, cutting
off the supply and cementing the clock.
The claim of responsibility is on page 18,
Source: Athens Indymedia
March 23, Brest, France: A newly
installed camera in the town square, which
had caused resentment in the
neighborhood, was covered with paint.
Source: Bourrasque-Info
24 March, Hamburg, Germany: An
arson attack on a Noske-Kaeser company
vehicle, a supplier to the Bundeswhr
(German Armed Forces), the United
Kingdom Navy, the Israeli Army, the South
Korean Army, the Australian Army, and
others.
“What can we do about wars that are
co-financed and supported here? For
example, attacking the infrastructure
here that enables these wars..... [...]
Let's fight for antimilitarism, let's
oppose companies that make millions
from death and war, which enrich
themselves from the misery of humans,
animals and nature. Antimilitarism is
found in the streets and nights,
actively practiced. Words and
discussions are not enough for us,
which is why we actively oppose war,
exploitation and the accumulation of
goods by a few, based on death,
abuse of others and the environment.
With all the means at our disposal....”
Source: German Indymedia
24 March, Wallonia, Belgium: Twenty-
one ticket machines vandalized at various
train stations between Liége and Charleroi.
The methods used, such as inserting
insulating foam or screws into the bank
card reader, were previously used again in
the area.
Source: Sans Nom
25 March, Basel, Switzerland: A soon-to-
be-occupied new building in St
Johannspark, owned by the real estate
company “SF Urban Properties AG”, was
attacked with hammers and paint as part of
the fight against gentrification.
Source: Barrikade
26 March, Mllan, Italy: : A
sledgehammer attack on a RE/MAX real
estate office in Milan's Via Noe in
solidarity with the Palestinian people.
RE/MAX buys houses of evicted
Palestinians and rents them to Israeli
settlers.
“.After almost six months of
massacres and horrors in Gaza and
the West Bank, we do not want to
forget that the accomplices of the
genocide are also here...”
Source: La Nemesi
26 March, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt,
Germany: An arson attack on the
Gladiator Fight Academy combat sports
center, causing hundreds of thousands of
euros in damage, a month before its
opening. The Gladiator Fight Academy
was a neo-Nazi attempt to strengthen its
presence in the region by creating a
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dedication to the anarchist consciousness is
what gives us the opportunity to experiment
with our ideas, to evaluate our efforts and to
repeat them from a better starting point next
time. Because, we are and we will be here,
we are not passers-by, we continue to walk
on the path we have chosen freely.
they don't bring down their life
not even by a centimetre
dying, they bite death in its
larynx
(G. Lykiardopoulos)
Anonymous submission
From Athens Indymedia, 06/06/24
Liceo de Aplicacion (20 March)
Hooded students break through the
fortifications of their school gate to take to the
streets and riot in memory of comrade Deli.
The gate had been fortified over the summer
with steel plates, padlocks and barbed wire in
an attempot to prevent the students’ struggle.
ol
Pudahuel, Santiago (23 March)
Snapshot from the actions for the Day of the
Young Fighters
Clashes outside Instituto Nacional in
Santiago (16 April)
)
Concepcidn (26 Anpthiov)
Action in solidarity with anarchist and
Mapuche prisoners.
Chile: A spring full of
fires, clashes and
agitations
Anarchic memory connects different generations of comrades through action, fuelling the
struggles of the present and inspiring the struggles of the future. Below we present some
snapshots of recent incidents and agitations that took place in Chile on the occasion of
various anniversaries of black memory (and more), as well as some statements by Chilean
comrades where the memory of the fallen fighters becomes fuel for their subversive
words.
In particular, the following events had happened:
8 March: Agitation in Liceo de Aplicacion in memory of comrade Samu, one year
after his death, and of Cristian Valdebenito who got killed by cops four years ago,
at the time of the social ~ antisocial insurrection.
+ 18 March: Commemoration event for Javier Recabarren Olivares, an eleven years
old antispeceist anarchist who died nine years ago by being hit by a bus.
« 20 March: Demonstration and agitation at Liceo de Aplicacién in memory of
comrade Deli, a student from the same school who died some time ago. The same
day an agitation was held in the streets of Santiago in solidarity with anarchist
prisoner Marcelo Villarroel.
26 March: Agitation in the Victoria area of Santiago, for the 31 years since the
killing of Norma Vergara Cceres from cops.
+ 27 March: Riots outside various high schools and universities in Santiago for the
Day of the Young Fighters.
+ 29 March: Events, demonstration and riots in Santiago’s Pudahuel commune for
the Day of the Young Fighters. The same day an agitation was held at the outskirts
of Santiago against drug trafficking, the state and the police.
+ 16 April: Riots outside Instituto Nacional
+ 18 April: Commemoration event for the fallen urban guerilla fighters Erick
Rodriguez and Ivén Palacios
« 26 April: Fiery barricades and propaganda action oy Concepeién (second largest
city in Chile) in solidarity with anarchist and Mapuche prisoners.
1 May: Violent demonstrations in Santiago for May Day and for the 15 years since
the death of comrade Mauricio Morales. There had been clashes, arsons,
roadblocks, lootings and sabotage.
« 8 May: Commemoration event outside San Miguel Prison for Mauricio Morales
and the 81 prisoners who died in a fire that occurred in that particular prison.
« 15 May: Firey barricades in Concepcion in memory of comrades Mauricio
Morales ke Pablo Marchant.
« Fiery barricades, clashes, arson attacks and agitations in a weekly basis throughout
May in memory of comrade Mauricio Morales.
Monica Caballero: “If the streets could
speak”
1If the streets of this city could speak, they would tell us stories of barricades and fire,
mixed with sweat, blood and tears. In those stories would be the petite and resilient figure
of Luisa Toledo, who with a couple of words moved generations, and who, no matter how
many years passed since the murder of her sons Eduardo and Rafael by the police, never
stopped taking to the streets to commemorate their death and above all their lives as
young fighters.
Today, March 29th, new stories of barricades and fire will emerge, those that will rise up
for Eduardo and Rafael, and in turn for the dozens of young fighters who decided to take
the step towards the offensive attack against domination.
The stories of yesteryear of the young people who fought the dictatorship give us a rich
and nourishing path, in which today’s young people grew up and lay new paths for those
to come.
1If the streets could speak, they would tell the stories of the young fighters of yesterday
and today, and we must do our best to make them tell the stories of those to come. Just as
Luisa Toledo did with blood, sweat and tears.
Only those who forget die die. May the barricades never stop burning.
Monica Caballero Sepilveda
Anarchist prisoner
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Santiago: Claim of responsibility for the
incendiary attack on a bus by the Incendiary Cell
for the Individual Action “Severino Di Giovanni”,
Black Vengeance / FAI-IRF
15 years after your death in action.
MAURICIO MORALES YOU LIVE IN THE FIRE.
“On my back lying on the floor of the street, with the frozen cement, I see my
fall pass close by and I see myself lying on this very spot... with my heart
beating in a hurry and the rain washing hard the blood from my surroundings”
From the violent demonstration for May Day
in Santiago.
The banner reads:
“For the expansion of chaos
Long live anarchy
Mauricio Morales present”
Mauricio Morales
“We keep our dead in our hearts. We carry them with us in wild moments when
the anarchist attack disturbs the order of this world. Anarchy has neither
victims nor heroes.”
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire
On May 27, 2024 at a few hours before
midnight we stormed a public transport bus.
ith a clear objective, to break the
monotony of the city’s rthythm and
illuminate the cold night of May in memory
of the anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales.
15 years ago... on May 22, 2009 around Anarchist agitation in the streets of Santiago
1:30 am, a roar shook the silent and cold in memory of Mauricio Morales (3 May)
ight of the Matta neighborhood. The wit
hat transported in the direction of the
ldamned school of gendarmerie of Chile had
detonated in advance, the Punky Mauri as he
as known in the anarchist environments,
died at the instant of the detonation melting
ith the device that had been arranged to
place in that nefarious institution.
Today we remember you with action. That bomb in which you met your death resounds in
every complicit gesture that attempts against domination.
‘We want to contribute to the call for a Black May, an anti-prison May, an anarchist May. It
is still time to generate and strengthen offensive complicities, to keep alive the anarchic
action. To keep alive the memory of those who went on the offensive, to be an embrace in
solidarity with those who are in the dungeons of capital, to contribute in some way to
break its precious social peace.
More than a year after their arrest, we embrace the anarchist comrades Aldo and Lucas
Hernandez, this also goes for you.
We call for action and to make visible the prison situation and the attempt to bury through
isolation the Anarchist comrade Francisco Solar.
Freedom for: Juan Aliste, Marcelo Villaroel, Ménica Caballero, Joaquin Garcia, Aldo and
Lucas Hemdndez, Francisco Solar, Juan Flores, Anti-speciesist Prisoners, Political
Prisoners and Mapuche Political Prisoners.
FIRE AND DYNAMITE TO THE JAIL. FIRE AND LEAD TO THE JAILER.
TO MULTIPLY AND INTENSIFY THE ATTACKS, BY THE EXPANSION OF THE
ANARCHIST URBAN GUERRILLA.
AGAINST THE PRISON AND DOMINATION SOCIETY.
LONG LIVE ANARCHY!
Anarchist agitation in the streets of Santiago
in memory of Mauricio MOrales (10 May)
Incendiary Cell for the Individual Action “Severino Di Giovanni”
Black Vengeance / FAI-IRF (Informal Anarchist Federation ~ International Revolutionary
Front)
Athens: Claim of responsibility for attacking
a MAT police squad in the Exarchia square
in memory of Mauricio Morales
Shortly after midnight on Saturday (18/5) we carried out a coordinated attack on the
MAT (Unit for the Restoration of Order) protecting the metro construction site in §
Exarchia square. We attacked them simultaneously from three different streets,
Themistokleous, Solomou and Metaxas. The cops, once again, were running in panic
trying to get away from the fires.
Concepcion (15 May)
Burning barricades in memory of Mauricio
Morales and Pablo Marchant
‘This action came amid a time when the sheet metal of the construction site is expanding,
where the government is preparing the ground for new more repressive measures, both in
the universities and more widely in the neighbourhoods, taking advantage as usual of the
summer season when the possibilities for organised and mass resistance are reduced. So
this is our response to remind them that, as always, they will find us in front of them.
15 years after the death of Mauricio Morales we send a signal of fire and complicity
from Greece to Chile, honoring the international cooperation that existed between these
two lands not many years ago. Let the slogan "spark in Santiago, fire in Athens” become
a reality again.
University of Chile (23 May)
Snapshot from the incendiary exit of students
from the campus. Leaflets were thrown,
Mauricio Morales present barricades were set up, clashes with
carabineros occured, as well as an arson
attempt against a bus.
MIA
training center for far-right fighters.
Source: German Indymedia
26 March, Dijon, Lorraine, France:
Unknown youths broke the window of the
principal’s office of Rouget-de-Lisle’s
school and destroyed the computer and
photocopiers.
Source: Sans Nom
26 March, Pennsylva USA:
Anarchists sabotaged a Securitas security
company vehicle in response to the
deplorable conditions at SCI Rockview
prison.
Source: Philly Anti-Capitalist
27 March, Santiago, Chile: After
reviewing the sentence of anarchist
comrade Francisco Solar, the judiciary
rejected the defense’s request and upheld
the 86-year prison sentence for the
comrade’s explosive attacks on the
powerful, the oppressors and the wealthy.
In reality this sentence remains a hidden
life sentence. We reiterate the call to
overcome the helplessness and indignation
brought about by the endorsement of this
state attack, understanding this
condemnation as a blow to the entire
anarchist movement. Our solidarity
justifies the attack and defends our
comrades in anarchic and informal actions.
Solidarity with those who attack the
powerful and the oppressors!
Francisco Solar on the way!
Source: Informativo Anarquista
27 March, Santiago, Chile: On the eve of
the Day of Young Fighters, students
walked out of their schools, set up
barricades, threw leaflets, clashed with
carabineros and attacked with Molotov
cocktails.
Source: Informativo Anarquista
27 March, New York, USA: A group of
anarchists caused various acts of sabotage
at a RE/MAX office on the occasion of
Palestinian Land Day, rendering it unable
to operate for the next few days.
Source: tnstagram
28 March, Athens, Greece: Vandalism by
anarchists on the facade of an AB
Vassilopoulos supermarket. The anarchists
were located and arrested shortly after.
‘The announcement of those arrested is on
page 21.
Source: Athens Indymedia
29 March, Rome, Italy: The Cell “Abele
Ricieri Ferrarri” of the Black International
carries out an arson attack on a private
Carabinieri vehicle. The disclaimer is on
page 4.
Source: La Nemesi
29 March, Philadelphia, USA:
Unidentified persons vandalised cars in the
Fishtown neighborhood ~ against
gentrification.
Source: Unravel
30 March, La Bastide de Cheron,
Occitania, France: Vandalism of a golf
course by unknown persons. The ground
around the holes was dug with shovels, the
seats of the carts were cut with a cutter, the
GPS consoles were removed or painted
with the slogan “ACAB”. The carriage
covers were also painted in the same
‘manner.
The same venue was attacked again in
exactly the same way on 30 June 2023, in
the context of the protests against Nahel's
murder, where the slogan "No justice, no
peace” was also written on the walls of the
sports club's office.
Source: Sans Nom
31 March, Brussels, Belgium: The
Gravediggers of Property attacked around
fifteen real estate agencies by pouring glue
on door locks and painting the facades
with slogans.
“...In Brussels, as elsewhere, we are
doomed to suffocate in unlivable
living conditions. More than 7,000
people are now homeless and 50,000
families are on a waiting list for an
indefinite period to obtain social
housing. In the meatime, thousands of
buildings are empty and abandoned,
rents are soaring, squatting of empty
spaces is criminalized and the poor
are displaced and the poor are
displaced and dispersed to the
outskirts of the city. [...]
By attacking some real estate
agencies, we wanted to attack the
quintessential symbol of housing as a
commodity...”
Source: Stutt
1 April, Paris, France: About forty ATMs
were vandalised in the Paris suburbs with
glue and foam. On some of them were
witten the slogans “H.S.” and "No to the
Olympics".
Source: Indymedia Lille
3 April, Tours, France: The brasserie
"Saint-Germain" is attacked with stones by
unknown persons, causing damage to the
facade of the building. The reason for the
attack was the fact that the brasserie hosted
an event by the far-right group Des Turs et
des Lys on 15 March.
Source: Attack
4 April, Marseille, France: Unknown
persons attacked the Félix-Pyat police
station with Molotov bombs. Two patrol
cars were completely destroyed by the
flames.
Source: Sans Nom
4 April, Munich, Germany: An
excavator, two loaders and a Unimog
(Mercedes off-road van) were set on fire in
the Meillerweg area with six-figure
damages. This place, apart from being a
stone's throw from the Nymphenburg
Palace, the summer residence of the former
rulers of the Kingdom of Bavaria, it is also
the site of the S-Bahn, the city's second
main metro line.
‘The "ghosts of Munich", as journalists and
cops call them, are responsible for around
thirty devastating attacks from 2019 to
date, responsible for damages costing at
least 20 million euros.
“..They set fire to power lines and
construction equipment,
telecommunications antennas and
electric cars, railways are also a
target of their attacks, as are
geothermal pipelines. Their identity
and origin remain a complete mystery.
Like ghosts, they leave no usable trace
or claim of responsibility...”
Source: Sans Nom
4 April, Le Lamantine, Martinique,
Caribbean: An unknown number of
people broke the windows of a France
Travail building and vandalised its offices.
France Travail is the French state agency
responsible for the unemployed. The
service has come under frequent attacks in
recent times, including stone throwing,
graffiti and anonymous letters containing
bullets.
Source: Sans Nom
4 April, Athens, Greece: A group of
anonymous anarchists attacked
Mediterranean College and IEK AKMI,
two of the most well-known private
schools in central Athens, with
sledgehammers. The facades of both
buildings were broken, and at IEK AKMI,
computers and screens inside were also
broken.
“..The constitution is something that
is written by a select few for
themselves, and creates an illusion of
freedom and security in the modern
world for everyone else. Here a need
of the capital is recognised (private
higher education institutions) and the
stat This is why our position is not
confined to the role of the guardian of
Mauricio Morales on the map of the international
anarchist offensive
From Informativo Anarquista, a counter-information project, we write these words 15 years
after the death in action of comrade Mauricio Morales, Punki Mauri.
Death is an event that inevitably takes us away from the body of the person who has passed
away. But as quickly as the body withers, the common imagination turns to the dawn and
unfolds the culminating fact of death towards hundreds, if not thousands, of memories,
testimonies and actions that forge in the skin a vitality capable of driving a heart that beats
in all directions.
Memory is not an exercise in unanimity or homogeneous plenitude. It does not always
have the same points of reference or the same explanations. What it is, however, is
collective, at the same time as it integrates shades and particularities that respond to their
own places, to solitary or loose voices, which converge and meet on certain occasions
between one and the other. In this sense, anarchic memory has been a point of connection,
amotive for encounter that gives way to the search for and rapprochement of affinities with
the decisions and paths that a companion built n life.
Mauricio Morales reflects, in part, what we want to say; how the heart of a dead comrade
can be pumped with insistence. That, despite the pain and sadness, the persecutions and
imprisonments that this brought, networks were built, complicities were strengthened and
his anarchic memory continues to this day. We agree with the now extinct counter-
information project Liberacién Total (2011), that ‘death is an unbeatable obstacle, but in
contrast, forgetting and passivity are walls that we know how to break down. Not only in
relation to the comrade Mauri but to every insurrectionary spirit that has to live through the
hardest circumstances of the paths we choose in life”.
In the exercise of their memory, the counter-information pages crossed communicational
frontiers and provided an effective means of dissemination through which comrades from
all over the world learned of Mauri’s death. The publication in them of words written by
squatted social centres, friends, publishers, prisoners, action groups and Mauri himself,
made possible the translation into different languages and the externalisation of an
offensive memory to an international affinity.
Consulting a legend of black internationalism in the book Mapping the Fire (2012), one
reads, no more and no less, that the pages of counter-information “are the messengers of
our decision to get off the train of commitments and start a global journey of anarchy
without a return ticket”.
The propagation of Mauricio Morales’ ideas, thoughts and contradictions was and is
precisely the sign of a passage without a return ticket, especially because the comrade
declared that the ideas coming out of our mouths were not enough, but the ones prevailing
in active hands. Thus, the ltalian counter-informative project Culmine understands that
(...) the affinity that we feel with Mauri is not only limited to the nihilistic aesthetics of
his thoughts, no! We know that we have in front of us a comrade in action, one who has
always confronted power o its ultimate consequences”.
Contagious of this spirit, in 2009, in a vindication of the explosive attack against the
Chilean consulate in Greece, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire wrote that there are “people we
have never met, but we know that we always look at things from the same perspective’.
And a year later, also in reference to the Mauri, Marco Camenisch* expressed from a
prison in Switzerland that ‘every death of ours, every failure of ours becomes a victory in
the “strategic field” of the offensive’.
As a striking element of the black memory, we deny the rise of martyrs, heroes or
untouchable figures, connecting with our dead comrades as a living whole that navigates
agitated waters.
15 years after the attempt to attack the nest of jailers; the wall paintings, books, activities,
counter-information projects, burning tyres, bottles flying in the wind, whistling bullets,
incendiary or explosive planning, continue to carry the name of Punki Mauri through the
streets, across languages, kilometres and generations.
Nothing s over, everything continuous.
May)
A death in action is an eternal call to fight.
Santiago University (28 May)
In memory of Mauricio Morales and
Together we can continue to keepo ensuring that anarchy lives on
Informativo Anarquista
May 2024
Francisca Sandoval
Colombia: Rioting in memory of Mauricio Morales
On May 22, hooded students set up barricades and clashed with the Unit of Dialogue and Maintenance of Order (UNDMO) using Molotov
bombs outside the National Pedagogy University, in honor of Chaos Day and anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales. According to a
photojournalist, the action was also taken against the national government. In the midst of conflict, some of the hooded students parked a
bus at the university entrance to prevent entry, a situation in which UNDMO responded by opening fire, injuring several students.
~Page9~
The conflict in Abya Yala and its
proximitity with the “Switch Off!”
campaign
Anarchist words concerning the necessary struggle for the
Earth
Faced with devastation: sabotage and war!
As the comrades who have raised and
formed part of the campaign have
understood it, “Switch Off! The system of
destruction”] consists of the “attack
against companies and infrastructures that
feed the ecological catastrophe across the
world”. Here also, in Abya Yala (ancestral
name for the territory known as America),
multiple struggles for the defense of the
carth have been developed, from the
precolonial peoples who continue fighting,
to new anarchic perspectives that tip more
and more into the struggle for the earth.
While we haven’t been able to stop the
ecological catastrophe entirely, we can find
concrete examples of territorial victories
that have managed to stop, expel or at least
considerably push back the materialization
of extractivist projects, like the resistance
and armed offensive of diverse mapuche
organizations in Wallmapu.
The struggles in different latitudes aren’t
detached form one another and they aim at
the same enemies. This is why we believe
it favorable to make the “Switch Offt”
campaign our own, endowing it with our
own territorial circumstances to avoid
overlooking our particularities.
The history of Abya Yala has been
characterized by pillage and assault by
various imperialist hands and powerful
economic groups, both local and
transcontinental, belonging to the same
machinery of exploitation and theft. Today
we continue 1o be the comerstone of
capitalism and its new twist “green
capitalism”, the supposed “sustainable”
version, finding ourselves with new
interests perpetuating ecocide. One of
these is lithium extraction that today plays
a fundamental role for the reformulation of
the system of depredation as was once the
case with oil, whose disastrous
consequences we already know all too
well. This is how the parasitic logics
continue over the territories ~called
“developing” or “third world”, that at the
cost of destruction make possible and
sustain the status and quality of life of the
“first world”.
But faced with the manifold forms of
exploitation, the expressions of combat
and resistence carried out in different
territories are also manifold. This is
demonstrated by the communities
inhabiting the amazon jungle that confront
deforestation, displacement and the
destruction of ecosystems, a situation that
is repeated across the continent. Also the
various environmental struggles, especially
pursued by state intelligence, its armed
wing and the corporate hitmen, showing
the discomfort and annoyance that these
conflicts generate in power even when
they are partial or even addressed only by
legal means. Likewise, there is the
anarchic offensive that is part of these
conflicts, as in the north of the continent
where the comrades of the “Coordinadora
de mujeres anarquistas por la defensa de
nuestro cuerpo-territorio” [Coordination of
anarchist women for the defense of our
body-territory”] sabotaged the works of the
ecocidal “Tren Maya™ project, or the
resistance in the defense camp in the
“Atlanta Forest” where a police training
center is being built, and where anarchist
comrade Tortuguita was killed in the
course of the clashes. 3 On the other hand,
the situation in the south of the continent is
very similar, in the territory dominated by
the chilean state, where these atiacks
spread and expand: in the Maule region,
the “Grupo Auténomo Revolucionario del
Maule” [Maule Autonomous
Revolutionary Group] attacked machinery
of a concrete and asphalt factory 4; in the
Metropolitan Region the “Célula Andrkika
Boske Negro” [Black Forest Anarchic
Cell” attacked a telecommunications
antenna located on an urban hill 5, the
“Célula_Insurreccional por el Maipo —
Nueva Subversién” [Insurrectional Cell for
the Maipo — New Subversion] attacked a
concrete factory 6 and a refrigeration
factory and slaughterhouse 7, both located
along the same river, and the “Nuevas
Subversiones Andrquicas — Célula Alex
Nuiiez — FAI” [New Anarchic Subversions
— Alex Nuiez Cell — FAI] attacked the
“Oxiquim” 8 factory with explosives, just
to name a few of the claimed actions of the
last period. This is not to leave aside or
devalue other attacks that, without being
explicitly for the earth, target and attack
the same power that degrades the planet.
Considering ~ our similarities and
particularities, as well as the urgencies and
necessities that bring us together, we find it
relevant to adhere actions against the
machine of degradation on this continent
and the world to the campaign “Switch
Offt, with the goal of strengthening our
struggles and deepening the combat
against the existent and its historically
internationalist character, visibilizing on a
global level the urgency of negating this
reality in practice with everything we have
at hand, demonstrating through action that
its possible to fight, returning the pain to
those responsible, the creators of these
conditions, and that it’s possible to
embrace a dignified life that breaks with
the misery in which they want to suffocate
and bury us.
“Remember that the
mechanisms of subjugation and
control surround us. Wherever
you are, you don't need to
venture very far to find the
veins of industry; go and cut
them”.
We redeem the memory of the comrade
Emilia Bau, who was assassinated in a
conflict for the defense of the water in
Mapuche territory, the comrade Santiago
Maldonado who became part of the
Mapuche struggle and who was
disappeared by the Argentinean state in the
course of confrontations with police, and
later found dead. Also the weichafes
Matias Catrileo and Pablo Marchant, who
were assassinated by the police in
Wallmapu while ~exercising territorial
control and sabotage, respectively, against
colonizers and loggers.
Freedom to anarchist, subversive and
‘mapuche prisoners!!
For anarchy, for the earth, for our lives
Insurrectional Cell for the Maipo — New
Subversion
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the constitution, but we attack the
foundations of this repressive charter
of democracies and beyond.
In the previous part, the role of
guardian of the constitution was
assumed by the domestic left. They are
using it as an arow of their
propaganda, while their quiver was
empty. It is also known that the leftist
students conduct an institutional
struggle, such as decisions of general
assemblies motivated by their union
vehicles and by making behind-the-
scenes deals with each other, the
factions try every time to patronise
any struggle that breaks out within
universities. A typical example is the
"mass" general assemblies that took
decisions about weekly squats, in
which only the factions with their own
schedule and own locks could
participate, making the means of
struggle by squatting completely
meaningless, since lectures and
examinations were carried out without
hindrance in almost all departments.
‘This had not only undermined the
tool of struggle of squatting, but also
left a legacy of disuse of this means.
The fetishisation of '06-'07 and of
the struggles that were preached in
every 3rd row of their texts, makes
them look like outliers and not as
pioneers, as they want to present
themselves. This stems from their
basic mode of action, which aims
only at extracting political surplus
value for the benefit of their
organisations..."
Source: Athens Indymedia
4 April, Patras, Greece: MacDonals store
vandalised in solidarity ~with the
Palestinian people. The group then set up
barricades with the intention of clashing
with the police, who, however, did not
show up and instead carried out massive
and indiscriminate searches of people in
another part of the city, hauling in and
thrashing unrelated people.
Source: Athens Indymedia
4 April, Montreal, Canada: Anarchists
armed with various tools vandalised the
MCGill University administration building
in response to the administration's move to
call the police on a person who drew a
graffiti.
Source: Montréal Contre-Information
4 April, Costa Brava, Catalonia: One
day after a protest by farmers, an unknown
person sabotaged and disabled three wells
that were previously responsible for
salinising the region's aquifer. Their recent
reopening had caused strong reactions.
Source: Indymedia Barcelona
6 April, Agen, New Aquitaine, France: A
core of the GIEC signing as Groupe
d’ldéalistes Enrayant le Capitalisme
sabotaged an NGE construction site by
adding abrasive products to the tanks of
the machines located in the area.
“...This disarmament comes after
months of fierce struggle at
Crem'Arbre against the brutality of
power. In recent days, one of the
branches of this power (France’s
Biodiversity Office) has recognized
the illegality of cutting down trees
occupied by squirrels [...] The State
has been striking for months. Now, a
beautiful spring day gives five months
of reprieve — temporary of course.
Nothing surprises us anymore with the
absurdity of this system, and for that
we respond with words as well as
action...”
Source: Sans Nom
6 April, Brest, France: The surveillance
camera in the town square was covered
with paint again.
Source: Bourrasque-Info
10 April, Athens, Greece: Responding to
the call of the First Sector of the Anti-
Fascist Pyre, the Sector of the Municipal
Faction "Anti-Fascist Athens" attacks with
a low-powered incendiary device the
entrance to the residence of Dimitroulias
Georgios (Faidriadon street 2) who was a
municipal councilor candidate under
Kasidiaris, former deputy leader of fascist
Golden Dawn.
“.It is up to the anti-fascist
movement to prove to the garbage in
question that by taking off the T-shirts
of Golden Dawn and wearing suits
they will have the same painful end as
they had on the stree
Source: Athens Indymedia
10 April, PéBneck, Thuringia, Germany:
A massive 70m tall telecommunications
antenna was destroyed by an arson attack,
cutting off communication in the area and
causing 500,000€ in damage.
Source: Sans Nom
10 April, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Ile-
de-France, France: Fiber Internet cabinet
set on fire. This is the fourth arson attack
on optical fibers in twelve months in the
Parisian region.
Source: Sans Nom
10 April, Athens, Greece: Breaking and
painting of the office of the rector of the
Agricultural University of Athens by a
group of anarchists as a reaction to the
cooperation of the rectoral authorities with
the police to suppress political events and
self-organised ventures in universities and
other places.
Source: Athens Indymedia
10 April, New York, USA: OMNY
machines, surveillance cameras, and card
readers were sabotaged in response to the
growing use of surveillance technologies
on New York City citizens and the
increased presence of police and National
Guard in the subways.
Source: Instagram
11 April, Valence, Auvergne-Rhone-
Alpes, France: A hooded man with a
ladder damaged the surveillance camera
installed in the central square of the
Valensolles district and fled before police
arrived. The ladder was abandoned.
Source: Sans Nom
11 April, Chile: Under heavy security
measures, anarchist prisoner Ménica
Caballero was transferred from San Miguel
Prison to the San Joaquin Women's
Detention Center.
Her statement is on page 27.
Source: La Zarzamora
12 April, Labége, Occitania, France: 5G
antenna set on fire.
“...We have decided to burn down one
of the infrastructures of the ongoing
war. 5G is a basic infrastructure for
the mandatory digitisation of our
lives, this new world that we are being
sold with technological developments.
5G is a key infrastructure for a new
world under control, under constant
surveillance. An infrastructure that
allows us to be overwhelmed by more
and more interconnected commodities
to buy. An infrastructure for modern,
remotely controlled, intelligent and
advanced warfare. An infrastructure
for exploitation, at the expense of the
impoverished of this earth and the
resources of this planet. Energy,
cobalt, lithium, and so on. Let us
respond with resistance to the total
war raging against us.
We would also like to pay tribute to
the worker who died during the late
winter at a construction site for the
third metro line, a stone’s throw from
the burnt antenna.”
Source: Indymedia Lille
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The first point is the complete
disenchantment of the nature and the pre-
industrial lifestyle as an ideal or
something better than today's world in
which we are all consumed, a view that is
environment.
‘The second point comes from the first and
concerns the context in which Kaczynski
gave his fight. In classical political
philosophy, Hobbes grants absolute power
to Leviathan, in the turn however giving to
the citizen the freedom to privatise and
deal with their personal life. Something
similar can be said that also applies to the
case of the departure proposed by
Kazinski, as through this choice one denies
the obligations to modem civilisation
along with the conveniences he provides,
and seeks to exhaust his freedoms and
examine his self within the nature.
Kaczynski in 1971 set up his small hut in
Montana's forests, without water and
electricity, and over time developed
excellent survival abilities. Soon, however,
he himself found out that the isolation he
had chosen is not possible, when he saw
the construction of a highway happening at
a short distance from his hut and realised
the power and expansion of industrial
civilisation. Then, as he said in an
~Page 11~
interview, the priority of his life became a
revenge for the system.
So somewhere there Kaczynski thinks he
has to take action and the rest is pretty
much known, but it's worth staying at this
point. Kaczynski was looking for a shelter
in the Montana forests that he eventually
didn't find. Not because he didn't look for
it well enough, but because he had not
realised from the outset that there was no
escape from the industrial civilisation that
he hated. Realising that it is impossible to
get out of the system, Kaczynski begins
his campaign of revenge. But can a social
project be characterized by revenge?
Definitely no. So what struggle is that? It
is a struggle that can be either collective or
individual, but it is certainly not social and
not democratic ~ and that, I believe, is one
of the few characteristics that the
environmental movement has in common
with the animal defense movement — since
even if it was possible for a sustainable
living of 8 billion people (which does not
exist), "society" at every opportunity
Ted Kaczynski: Hit where it hurts
1. The Purpose Of This Article
‘The purpose of this article is to point out
avery simple principle of human conflict,
a principle that opponents of the techno-
industrial system seem to be overlooking.
The principle is that in any form of
conflict, if you want to win, you must hit
your adversary where it hurts.
1 have to explain that when I talk about
“hitting where it hurts’ I am not
necessarily referring to physical blows or
to any other form of physical violence.
For example, in oral debate, “hitting
where it hurts” would mean making the
arguments to which your opponents
position is most vuinerable. In a
presidential election, “hitting where it
hurts” would mean winning from your
opponent the states that have the most
electoral votes. Still, in discussing this
principle 1 will use the analogy of
physical combat, because it is vivid and
clear.
If a man punches you, you can’t defend
yourself by hitting back at his fist,
because you can’t hurt the man that way.
In order to win the fight, you have to hit
him where it hurts. That means you have
to go behind the fist and hit the sensitive
and vulnerable parts of the man’s body.
Suppose a bulldozer belonging to a
logging company has been tearing up the
woods near your home and you want to
stop it. It is the blade of the bulldozer that
rips the earth and knocks trees over, but it
would be a waste of time to take a
sledgehammer to the blade. if you spent a
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long, hard day working on the blade with
the sledge, you might succeed in
damaging it enough so that it became
useless. But, in comparison with the rest
of the bulldozer, the blade is relatively
inexpensive and easy to replace. The
blade is only the “fist” with which the
bulldozer hits the earth. To defeat the
machine you must go behind the “fist”
and attack the bulldozers vital parts. The
engine, for example, can be ruined with
very little expenditure of time and effort
by means well known to many radicals.
At this point I must make clear that I am
not recommending that anyone should
damage a bulldozer (unless it is his own
property). Nor should anything in this
article be interpreted as recommending
illegal activity of any kind. I am a
prisoner, and if I were to encourage illegal
activity this article would not even be
allowed to leave the prison. I use the
bulldozer analogy only because it it clear
and vivid and will be appreciated by
radicals.
2. Technology Is The Target
It is widely recognized that “the basic
variable which determines the
contemporary historic process is provided
by technological development” (Celso
Furtado®). Technology, above all else, is
responsible for the current condition of
the world and will control its future
development. Thus, the “bulldozer” that
we have to destroy is modern technology
itself. Many radicals are aware of this, and
therefore realize that there task is to
eliminate the entire techno-industrial
construction site in northwestern Portland
On Tuesday morning I burned three large machines at an Oregon
Department of Transportation (ODOT) construction site in
Portland. They were destroying the forest hillside on the south
side of the st. johns bridge to protect highway infrastructure.
ODOT construction sites, and highway construction in general,
often leave expensive (and highly flammable!) specialized
equipment unattended and unsecured overnight, making them
easy targets. ODOT is planning major highway expansion in the
Portland area over the next few years, despite long campaigns by
Youth vs ODOT and other environmentalist groups. Acting
through the political system is a futile and insufficient response to
the current crisis, as capitalism must continue its endless growth
no matter how bad things get. The highway system can only
expand if we allow it to. With some creativity, courage, and
determination, capital is far more vulnerable than it would have
you believe.
proves in practice which side it takes in
this confrontation and what priorities it
has.
Didn't Kazinski know these? Of course, he
knew them, that’s why he described his
struggle as an act of revenge. It is precisely
this awareness that makes him a part of the
tradition of revolutionary avant-garde and
separates him from the majority of the
ecological movement, which rarely comes
out of the bounds of harmlessness and/or
cartoonism. Also, it was this awareness of
his that broke the political barriers and
brought him mentally with people from
different starting points. What these people
could do if once, in an unspecified way,
came together in a literally sense, is a
melancholic question.
KA
From Anarchy Press Gr, 19/06/24
“The date is wrong. His death was at 10
June 2023.
system. But unfortunately they have paid
little attention to the need to hit the system
where it hurts.
Smashing up McDonald’s or Starbuck’s is
pointless. Not that I give a damn about
McDonald’s or Starbuck’s. I don’t care
whether anyone smashes them up or not.
But that is not a revolutionary activity.
Even if every fast-food chain in the world
were wiped out the techno-industrial
system would suffer only minimal harm
as a result, since it could easily survive
without fast-food chains. When you attack
McDonald’s or Starbuck’s, you are not
hitting where it hurts.
Some months ago I received a letter from
a young man in Denmark who believed
that the techno-industrial system had to be
eliminated because, as he put i, “What
will happen if we go on this way?”
Apparently, however, his form of
“revolutionary” activity was raiding fur
farms. As a means of weakening the
techno-industrial system this activity is
utterly useless. Even if animal
liberationists succeed in eliminating the
fur industry completely they would do no
harm at all to the system, because the
system can get along perfectly well
without furs.
I agree that keeping wild animals in cages
is intolerable, and that putting an end to
such practices is a noble cause. But there
are many other noble causes, such as
preventing traffic accidents, providing
shelter for the homeless,
...(continues in the next page)
How the incendiary device was constructed:
1 used plastic 1 gallon milk jugs filled with gasoline. A flare
attached to the side of the container (so that it sticks out past it)
components.
XOXOXO
makes for a convenient delay, burning down for 5-10 minutes
before the flame reaches the plastic and ignites the gasoline,
leaving plenty of time to get away before the fire starts. You can
steal flares from most large hardware stores and car supply stores.
1 placed each milk jug underneath the engines of the machinery,
where the heat would rise to the most flammable and critical
It was easy, fun, and I think I'll do it again. You should too!
Anonymous submission to Rose City Counter-Info
12 April, Santiago, Chile: Clashes
between hooded students of the Instituto
Nacional and carabineros. The gate of the
high school was sealed in order to prevent
the entrance of the student protesters who
were trying to maintain the cohesion of the
demonstration against the chemical attacks
of the carabineros. The students were able
to temporarily open the gate, but school
officials were able to close it again.
One student lost part of one of his fingers.
Source: Informativo Anarquista
13 April, Athens, Greece: Anarchist
attack on the glass window of a posh
clothing store on Tositsa and Spyrou
‘Trikoupi streets against the gentrification
of Exarchia.
“..The People's Trust knows very
well when, where and to whom it will
give away its money in order to
displace the poor and create a trendy
neighborhood, only for rich consumers
and tourists, instrumentalising _our
oppression. Capital is trying to kill the
political, rebellious ~ and ~ social
character of the neighbourhood
through AirBnBs, posh shops, policing
and repression. It will not pass. Here
are some more of the stores sponsored
by the company. Ode to socks
Zoodochou Pigis 41, Ale§ The Fresh
Pasta Bar Massalias 3, Kopmpai in
Didotou Street, Magic Kitchen in
Themistokleous, ~ Daydreamers i
Valtetsiou and Mavromichali, A place
to dress Strangers in Spyrou Trikoupi,
Peru in Deligianni Street. Their offices
are located in Athens at 4 Zalokosta
Street, Kolonaki and 5 Salaminas
Street, Thessaloniki.”
Source: Athens Indymedia
14 April, New York, USA: An
autonomous group of anti-capitalist and
anti-imperialist ~ anarchists attacked
multiple buildings of the Chase Bank
which finances the military technology
company Elbit Systems, and the Zionist
entity in general.
The attackers chained the doors, sealed
them with foam and painted the facades of
the buildings with pro-Palestine slogans.
Source: Unravel
15 April, Laval-sur-Luzége, New
Aquitaine, France: Unknown persons
broke the windows of a forestry machine,
cut the cables and filled it with slogans
such as "stop”, "shame”, "trees help us
breathe" and drawings of animals and
fungi. There have been similar attacks in
the past in the same area.
Source: Sans Nom
15 April, Caen, Normandy, France:
Anonymous persons carried out an arson
attack on the Internet supply of the Caen
Nuclear Safety Authority, against nuclear
power.
Source: Sans Nom
15 April, Athens, Greece: A group of
internationalists and ~solidarity activists
attacked a Starbucks store in Glyfada with
hammers and spray, while a fire
extinguisher was opened in the kitchen
resulting in the suspension of the store's
operations. Starbucks is being targeted
because of the financial and moral support
they provide to the IDE.
In addition, The Met, a hotel owned by
Israeli interests, was also spray-painted.
“...With the Western world supporting
the genocide and the NATO-EU-US-
ISRAEL alliance contributing to the
bloodshed the least we can do is to
bring the war back to the
metropolises of the West...”
Source: Athens Indymedia
16 April, Santiago, Chile: Hooded
students of the Instituto Nacional clashed
and threw Molotov bombs at carabineros
in response to the events of April 12
(counter-information column, page 10).
Source: Informativo Anarquista
16 April, Fayette County, Georgia, USA:
Anonymous arson attack on construction
site excavators next to a Fayetteville
hospital. The damaged equipment belongs
to the company Brasfield & Gorrie, one of
the main contractors of Cop City, the
upcoming training center for the Atlanta
police. The company is also a donor to the
Atlanta Police Foundation (ATF). The
company was targeted again in the spring
of 2022 in Birmingham, Alabama.
More generally, there have been dozens of
attacks in Atlanta and other states against
businesses that work for Cop City.
Source: Sans Nom
17 April, Lleida, Catalonia: Barrage of
arson attacks on fibre optics in the wider
area. A similar attack in the same area was
carried out in July 2023. The authorities
did not report the event.
“...In recent years the media has been
silent on similar acts of sabotage in
Catalonia claimed by anarchists:
burning relay antennas, railway cables,
etc. It is not surprising that those in
power refuse to admit the existence
of attacks on_power, especially if
they point to the fragility of certain
infrastructures. The Lleida fire had
very specific and interesting results.
Without internet, not only can one not
pay by card, but also banks cannot
function, so many services had to be
closed for at least a day...”
Source: Indymedia Barcelona
17 April, Saix, Occitania, France:
Around thirty people from a GIEC cell
who sign as Gang dinsolent.es éclatant le
capital break into the construction site of
the A69 highway and bum four NGE
machines destroying them
Source: Information Anti-Authoritaire
Toulouse et Alentours
17 April, Bassecourt, Switzerland:
Geophones (sensors used in_geothermal
energy) were stolen and then burned.
These sensors are used for geophysical
measurements and are part of a large
project in the area to build a geothermal
station, for which they have generated a lot
of reactions. A few months ago, two vans
carrying out geophysical measurements
were vandalised.
‘The protesting residents oppose the project
because of the environmental damage that
will be caused by the fracking that is
necessary for the construction of the
specific geothermal plant.
Source: Sans Nom
17 April, Saint-Cloud, Ile-de-France,
France: Vandals destroyed a large part of
the grass area of a golf course, planted
potatoes, caused sabotage and wrote the
slogan “expropriation of arable land”.
Source: Attaque
18 April, Quebec, Canada: Anarchists
sabotaged a truck carrying a drilling rig at
the Highway 20 expansion site, protesting
the environmental destruction the project is
causing.
Source: Montréal Contre-Information
19 April, Turin, Italy [Operation
Scintillal: The appeal of the trial of
Operation Scintilla, which in February
2019 led to the evacuation of the Squatted
Asylum, the arrest of seven comrades and
the 270 bis charge against eleven others,
has been completed.
The appellate court confirmed all
acquittals, but upheld the sentence of 4
years and 2 months against a comrade
accused of a bomb attack.
Source: La Nemesi
21 April, Athens, Greece: As a
continuation of the anti-fascist ~action
carried out on 10 April by the Anti-Fascist
Pyre, this time the same group planted an
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recycling, or helping old people cross the
street. Yet no one is foolish enough to
mistake these for revolutionary activities,
o to imagine that they do anything to
weaken the system.
3. The Timber Industry Is A Side
Issue
To take another example, no one in his
right mind believes that anything like real
wilderness can survive very long if the
techno-industrial system continues to
exist. Many environmental radicals agree
that this is the case and hope for the
collapse of the system. But in practice all
they do is attack the timber industry.
I certainly have no objection to their
attack on the timber industry. In fact, it's
an issue that is close to my heart and I'm
delighted by any successes that radicals
may have against the timber industry. In
addition, for reasons that I need to explain
here, I think that opposition to the timber
industry should be one component of the
efforts to overthrow the system.
But, by itself, attacking the timber
industry is not an effective way of
working against the system, for even in
the unlikely event that radicals succeeded
in stopping all logging everywhere in the
world, that would not bring down the
system. And it would not permanently
save wilderness. Sooner or later the
political climate would change and
logging would resume. Even if logging
never resumed, there would be other
venues through which wilderness would
be destroyed, or if not destroyed then
tamed and domesticated. Mining and
mineral exploration, acid rain, climate
changes, and species extinction destroy
wilderness; wilderness is tamed and
domesticated through recreation,
scientific study, and resource
management, including among other
thingselectronic tracking of animals,
stocking of streams with hatchery-bred
fish, and planting of ~genetically-
engineered trees.
Wilderness can be saved permanently
only by eliminating the techno-industrial
system, and you cannot eliminate the
system by attacking the timber industry.
The system would easily survive the
death of the timber industry because
wood products, though very useful to the
system, can if necessary be replaced with
other materials.
Consequently, when you attack the timber
industry, you are not hitting the system
where it hurts. The timber industry is only
the “fist” (or one of the fists) with which
the system destroys wilderness, and, just
as in a fist-fight, you can’t win by hitting
at the fist. You have to go behind the fist
and strike at the most sensitive and vital
organs of the system. By legal means, of
course, such as peaceful protests.
4. Why The System Is Tough
The techno-industrial ~ system s
exceptionally tough due to its so-called
“democratic” structure and its resulting
flexibility. Because dictatorial systems
tend to be rigid, social tensions and
resistance can be built up in them to the
point where they damage and weaken the
system and may lead to revolution. But in
a “democratic” system, when social
tension and resistance build up
dangerously the system backs off enough,
it compromises enough, to bring the
tensions down to a safe level.
During the 1960s people first became
aware that environmental pollution was a
serious problem, the more so because the
visible and smellable filth in the air over
our major cities was beginning to make
people physically uncomfortable. Enough
protest arose so that an Environmental
Protection Agency was established and
other measures were taken to alleviate the
problem. Of course, we all know that our
pollution problems are a long, long way
from being solved. But enough was done
so that public complaints subsided and the
pressure on the system was reduced for a
number of years.
‘Thus, attacking the system is like hitting a
piece of rubber. A blow with a hammer
can shatter cast iron, because caste iron is
rigid and brittle. But you can pound a
piece of rubber without hurting it because
it is flexible: It gives way before protest,
just enough so that the protest loses its
force and momentum. Then the system
bounces back.
So, in order to hit the system where it
hurts, you need to select issues on which
the system will not back off, in which it
will fight to the finish. For what you need
is not compromise with the system but a
life-and-death struggle.
5. It Is Useless To Attack The
System In Terms Of Its Own
Values
It is absolutely essential to attack the
system not in terms of its own
technologically-oriented values, but in
terms of values that are inconsistent with
the values of the system. As long as you
attack the system in terms of its own
values, you do not hit the system where it
hurts, and you allow the system to deflate
protest by giving way, by backing off.
For example, if you attack the timber
industry primarily on the basis that forests
are needed to preserve water resources
and recreational opportunities, then- the
system can give ground to defuse protest
without compromising its own values:
Water resources and recreation are fully
consistent with the values of the system,
and if the system backs off, if it resricts
logging in the name of water resources
and recreation, then it only makes a
tactical retreat and does not suffer a
strategic defeat for its code of values.
If you push victimization issues (such as
racism, sexism, homophobia, or poverty)
you are not challenging the system’s
values and you are not even forcing the
system to back off or compromise. You
are directly helping the system. All of the
wisest proponents of the system recognize
that racism, sexism, homophobia, and
poverty are harmful to the system, and
this is why the system itself works to
combat these and similar forms of
victimization.
“Sweatshops,” with their low pay and
wretched working conditions, may bring
profit to certain corporations, but wise
proponents of the system know very well
that the system as a whole functions
better when workers are treated decently.
In making an issue of sweatshops, you are
helping the system, not weakening it.
Many radicals fall into the temptation of
focusing on non-essential issues like
racism, sexism and sweatshops because it
is easy. They pick an issue on which the
system can afford a compromise and on
which they will get support from people
like Ralph Nader, Winona La Duke, the
labor unions, and all the other pink
reformers. Perhaps the system, under
pressure, will back off a bit, the activists
will see some visible result from their
efforts, and they will have the satisfying
illusion that they have accomplished
something. But in reality they have
accomplished nothing at all toward
eliminating the techno-industrial system.
‘The globalization issue is not completely
irelevant to the technology problem. The
package of economic and political
measures termed “globalization” does
promote economic growth and,
consequently, technological progress.
still, globalization is an issue of marginal
importance and not a well-chosen target
of revolutionaries. The system can afford
to give ground on the globalization issue.
Without giving up globalization as such,
the system can take steps to mitigate the
negative environmental and economic
consequences of globalization so as to
defuse protest. At a pinch, the system
could even afford to give up globalization
altogether. Growth and progress would
still continue, only at a slightly lower rate.
And when you fight globalization you are
not attacking the systems fundamental
values. Opposition to globalization is
motivated in terms of securing decent
wages for workers and protecting. the
environment, both of which are
completely consistent with the values of
the system. (The system, for its own
survival, can’t afford to let environmental
degradation go too far.) Consequently, in
fighting globalization you do not hit the
system where it really hurts. Your efforts
may promote reform, but they are useless
for the purpose of overthrowing the
techno-industrial system.
6. Radicals Must Attack The
System At The Decisive Points
To work effectively toward the
climination of the techno-industrial
system, revolutionaries must attack the
system at points at which it cannot afford
to give ground. They must attack the vital
organs of the system. Of course, when I
use the word “attack,” I am not referring
to physical attack but only to legal forms
of protest and resistance.
Some examples of vital organs of the
system are:
+ The electric-power industry. The
system is utterly dependent on its
electric-power grid.
+ The communications industry.
Without rapid communications, as
by telephone, radio, television, e-
mail, and so forth, the system
could not survive.
+ The computer industry. We all
know that without computers the
system would promptly collapse.
+ The propaganda industry. The
propaganda industry includes the
entertainment industry, the
educational system, _journalism,
advertising, public relations, and
much of politics and of the mental-
health industry. The system can’t
function unless people are
sufficiently docile and conforming
and have the attitudes that the
system needs them to have. It is
the function of the propaganda
industry to teach people that kind
of thought and behavior.
+ The biotechnology industry. The
system is not yet (as far as I know)
physically dependent on advanced
biotechnology. Nevertheless, the
system cannot afford to give way
on the biotechnology issue, which
is a critically important issue for
the system, as I will argue in a
moment.
Again: When you attack these vital
organs of the system, it is essential not to
attack them in terms of the system’s own
values but in terms of values inconsistent
with those of the system. For example, if
you attack the electric-power industry on
the basis that it pollutes the environment,
the system can defuse protest by
developing cleaner methods of generating
electricity. If worse came to worse, the
system could even switch entirely to wind
and solar power. This might do a great
deal to reduce environmental damage, but
it would not put an end to the techno-
industrial system. Nor would it represent a
defeat for the system’s fundamental
values. To accomplish anything. against
the system you have to attack all electric-
power generation as a matter of principle,
on the ground that dependence on
electricity makes people dependent on the
system. This is a ground incompatible
with the system’s values.
7. Biotechnology May Be The Best
Target For Political Attack
Probably the most promising target for
political attack is the ~biotechnology
industry. Though revolutions are generally
carried out by minorities, it is very useful
to have some degree of support, sympathy,
or at least acquiescence from the general
population. To get that kind of support or
acquiescence is one of the goals of
political action. If you concentrated your
political attack on, for example, ~ the
electric-power industry, it would be
extremely difficult to get any support
outside of a radical minority, because most
people resist change to their way of living,
especially any change that inconveniences
them. For this reason, few would be
willing to give up electricity.
But people do not yet feel themselves
dependent on advanced biotechnology as
they do on electricity. Eliminating
biotechnology will not radically change
their lives. On the contrary, it would be
possible to show people that the continued
development of biotechnology will
transform their way of life and wipe out
age-old human values. Thus, in
challenging biotechnology, radicals should
be able to mobilize in their own favor the
natural human resistance to change.
And biotechnology is an issue on which
the system cannot afford to lose. It is an
issue on which the system will have to
fight to the finish, which is exactly what
we need. But — to repeat once more — it
is essential to attack biotechnology not in
terms of the system’s own values but in
terms of values inconsistent with those of
the system. For example, if you attack
biotechnology, primarily on the basis that
it may damage the environment, or that
genetically-modified foods may be
harmful to health, then the system can and
will cushion your attack by giving ground
or compromising — for instance, by
introducing increased supervision of
genetic research and more rigorous testing
and regulation of genetically-modified
crops. People’s anxiety will then subside
and protest with wither.
8. All Biotechnology Must Be
Attacked As A Matter Of
Principle
So, instead of protesting one or another
negative consequence of biotechnology,
you have to attack all modern
biotechnology on principle, on grounds
such as (a) that it is an insult to all living
things; (b) that it puts too much power in
the hands of the system; (c) that it will
radically transform fundamental human
values that have existed for thousands of
years; and similar grounds that are
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inconsistent with the values of the system.
In response to this kind of attack the
system will have to stand and fight. It
cannot afford to cushion your attack by
backing off to any great extent, because
biotechnology is too central to the whole
enterprise of technological progress, and
because in backing off the system would
not be making only a tactical retreat, but
would be taking a major strategic defeat to
its code of values. Those values would be
undermined and the door would be opened
to further political attacks that would hack
away at the foundations of the system.
Now it’s true that the U.S. House of
Representatives recently voted to ban
cloning of human beings, and at least
some congressmen even gave the right
kinds of reasons for doing so. The reasons
I read about were framed in religious
terms, but whatever you may think of the
religious terms involved, these reasons
were not technologically acceptable
reasons. And that is what counts.
Thus, the congressmen’s vote on human
cloning was a genuine defeat for the
system. But it was only a very, very small
defeat, because of the narrow scope of the
ban — only one tiny part of biotechnology
was affected — and because for the near
future cloning of human beings would be
of little practical use to the system
anyway. But the House of
Representatives’ action does suggest that
this may be a point at which the system is
vulnerable, and that a broader attack on all
of biotechnology might inflict severe
damage on the system and its values.
9. Radicals Are Not Yet Attacking
Biotech Effectively
Some radicals do attack the
biotechnology, whether politically or
physically, but as far as I know they
explain their opposition to biotech in
terms of the system’s own values. That is,
their main complaints are the risks of
environmental damage and of harm to
health.
And they are not hitting the biotech
industry where it hurts. To use an analogy
of physical combat once again, suppose
you had to defend yourself against a giant
octopus. You would not be able to fight
back effectively by hacking at the tips of
its tentacles. You have to strike at its head.
From what I've read of their activities,
radicals who work against biotechnology
still do no more than hack at the tips of the
octopus’s tentacles. They try to persuade
ordinary farmers, individually, to refrain
from planting genetically-engineered seed.
But there are many thousands of farms in
America, so that persuading farmers
individually is an extremely inefficient
way to combat genetic engineering. It
would be much more effective to persuade
research scientists engaged in
biotechnological work, or executives of
companies like Monsanto, to leave the
biotech industry. Good research scientists
are people who have special talents and
extensive training, so they are difficult to
replace. The same is true of top corporate
executives. Persuading just a few of these
people to get out of biotech would do
more damage to the biotechnology
industry than persuading a thousand
farmers not to plant genetically-
engineered seed.
10. Hit Where It Hurts
It is open to argument whether I am right
in thinking that biotechnology is the best
issue on which to attack the system
politically. But it is beyond argument that
radicals today are wasting much of their
energy on issues that have little or no
relevance to the survival of the
technological system. And even when they
do address the right issues, radicals do not
hit where it hurts. So instead of trotting off
to the next world trade summit to have
temper tantrums over globalization,
radicals ought to put in some time
thinking how to hit the system where it
really hurts. By legal means, of course.
Place the Blame
Where It Belongs: The
Green Anarchy
Collective Response to
“Hit Where it Hurts”
by Ted Kaczynski
Although the Green Anarchy editorial
collective whole-heartedly supports Ted
Kaczynski as an anarchist political
prisoner, we had serious reservations
about running this article due to Ted's
hostility towards feminism and his casual,
off-hand dismissal of other liberation
struggles which he chooses not to
prioritize in his own life. Racism, sexism,
homophobia and poverty are not "non-
essential issues” to us, as they appear to be
to Ted; compulsary heterosexuality,
socially-enforced ~ sexual ~ conformity,
racism, mysogyny, and class division are
all products of a hierarchical, patriarchal
power structure, and nome of these
problems can ever be fully solved within
the context of civilization. It's not
“technology, above all else, which is
responsible for the current condition of the
world", as Ted claims - it's
civilization/patriarchy -- and if we want to
dismantle the technological megamachine
that is now devouring the biosphere, then
we need to understand how the
megamachine came to be, what led to its
creation, and how it serves the interests of
civilization's rulers.
We ultimately decided to print this article
because Ted is a sharp strategic thinker,
and because we feel strongly that more
discussions like this need to be occuring in
the pages of the anarchist press. At the
same time, we feel compelled to say that
Teds analysis of patriarcchy and
civilization is severely lacking, and we
take offence to his disparaging use of the
queer-identified term "pink,” which is
reminiscent of the fairly overt
homophobia we have seen in previous
pieces by Ted, like Ship Of Fools. Simply
and solely removing technology as the
total liberatory answer is a limited and
mechanistic approach. We face a totality
of domination which oppresses all life and
we need to try to see the whole picture.
For anti-authoritarian transformation,
many struggles are necessary and need to
be respected along with an awareness of
the underlying connectedness.
Of course, there can be no doubt that
technology is a major link on the chain of
our oppression and it's important that
anarchists / anti-authoritarians ~ purge
themselves of the liberal belief that
technology is "neutral.” There are five
books that we can reccomend to our
readers that will help get them started on
the process of deconstructing their faith in
and allegiance to technology. They are:
+ The Technological Society by
Jacques Ellul(out-of-print, but
readily available in any good used
bookstore),
incendiary device in the office of Phoebus
Margaritis (1 Paparigopoulou Street), who
was also a municipal candidate adviser to
Kasidiaris, like the previous target.
Source: Athens Indymedia
22 April, Atlanta, USA: Responding to
the call for autonomous actions against
Cop City on Earth Day, a group of
anonymous individuals destroyed ~ five
Flock cameras and one APD camera.
These cameras are based on artificial
intelligence and record a remarkable
amount of information, such as a vehicle's
color, model, stickers stuck on a vehicle, as
well as information about a vehicle's route.
Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
22 April, Chile: After upholding the 86-
year sentence against anarchist comrade
Francisco Solar, the gendarmerie made a
new maneuver in the comrade's prison
situation. After remaining in Rancagua
Prison's Maximum Security Unit 2, what
would have been appropriate would have
been to transfer him to Maximum Security
Unit 1 as a convict along with the rest of
his anarchist and subversive comrades. But
this time, seeking to deepen the legal
revenge, the partner is taken to a floor in
the same Maximum Security Unit 2 to
serve his sentence in an extraordinary
regime of punishment and isolation.
Source: Informativo Anarquista
23 April, Berlin, Germany: Two Tesla
cars set on fire.
Source: Sans Nom
24 April, California, USA: Twenty City
of Berkeley and UC Berkeley parking pay
stations were sabotaged by filling them
with inflating foam.
“This is our latest contribution to the
memory of Rosebud anarchist martyr
Abigail Denovo and the defense of
People's Park.
If the ity of Berkeley and UCB want
to take People's Park, we will make
them pay.
Our action is inspired by a similar
action that took place earlier this
month in solidarity ~with the
Palestinian people. Rebel salute to all
who are fighting back against the
colonial nightmare.”
Source: Indybay
24 April, Chania, Greece: The anarchist
group Sto Sfyri attacked the Ambasador
hotel of Israeli interests with hammers.
Source: Athens Indymedia
24 April, ltaly [Operation Scripta
Manent]: The Court of Cassation upholds
the sentences of 23 years and 17 years and
9 months for Alfredo Cospito and Anna
Beniamino.
Itis worth noting that in the morning hours
of April 22, the DIGOS police forces of
Turin imposed 19 preventive measures on
comrades who participated in the events of
the 4" of March, 2023 march in solidarity
with Alfredo Cospito, as part of a series of
repressive intimidation against those
mobilising to support the comrade.
Source: La Nemesi
24 April, Rome, Italy: Burning barricades
and an attack on a post office and an ATM.
Also on the front of the post office was
written the slogan “Freedom to Anna and
Alfredo”.
Source: La Nemesi
25 April, Quebec, Canada: Anarchists
claimed responsibility for vandalising
Airbnb rentals ahead of Renters' Day.
“...Because we are tired of passing in
front of accommodations that, instead
of housing our neighbors, serve above
all to enrich the owners. We will never
again tumn a blind eye to these new
buildings that are only used for short-
term rentals while we struggle to find
aroof over our heads...”
Source: Montréal Contre-Information
26 April, Concepcién, Chile: Burning
barricades in solidarity with comrades
being seized and locked up in the prisons
of the Chilean state.
“We vindicate each of their struggles
against this system of death that only
seeks exploitation for financial
interests, destroyers of earth and life.”
Source: La Zarzamora
26 April, New York, USA: A group of
anonymous individuals set off the
Brooklyn Marriott Hotel's fire alarm and
released 300 crickets, disrupting an APD
(Atlanta Police Department) hiring event.
Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
27 April, Thessaloniki, Greece:
Anarchists claim responsibility for the
expropriation of a Bazzaar supermarket
that took place on 22 February, 2024,
during a student march. The products were
distributed to the people of the march.
“...Among other things, this act is also
a small attack on the dominant student
identity, as it is often built by the
media, the state and also a large part of
the left. A student identity that is
linked to the rule of law and in which,
even if you fight as a student, you
must do so within the limits of the law,
but also of trade unionism. For our
part, we remind you that students can
be hooded and vice versa. At the same
time it was a way to put some of our
slogans into practice.
Because as long as our life becomes
the property of merchants and our
breath is measured in money,
expropriation among_ other things
will be an assertion and an
attack...”
Source: Athens Indymedia
27 April, Athens, Greece: Attack with
sledgehammers on the windows of the
Alter Athens hotel against the
gentrification of Exarchia.
“We will blow to smithereens the
suites with the 100 euros stays. We
don’t want any hotel, any airbnb, any
shop to remain standing. We only want
squats and enclaves of lawlessness to
make our thoughts breaths of freedom.
We recognise that in this suffocating
world we live in, the only option is
systematic and consistent attack,
and we favor its escalation.”
Source: Athens Indymedia
29 April, Quebec, Canada: Anarchists set
off an arson attack on railroad tracks in St.
Henri with the aim of temporarily halting
train traffic in solidarity with Palestine and
the anti-capitalist May Day.
Source: Montréal Contre-Information
29 April, New York, USA: Anonymous
person claims destruction of three OMNY
readers and MetroCard machines in
memory of indigenous comrade Tortuguita
killed by the state, and due to the increased
policing of the homeless, the blacks and
the pro-Palestine protesters, as well as
against surveillance technologies.
Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
29 April, New York, USA: Another APD
recruitment event was sabotaged by
anarchists, this time by clogging the toilets
of the Brooklyn Marriott Hotel with
cement.
Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
30 April, Madrid, Spain: Barrage of
attacks by anarchists. They set fire to an
Amazon van and another Seur van with a
lighter and gasoline. They attacked with
hammers the windows of the building of
the Caixabank bank, as well as the
windows of the building of the insurance
company Fremap. In addition, the locks of
various temporary employment agencies
were sealed.
“...Because we will never give up on
the attack. Because there are always a
~Page 14~
+ Technics and Human Development: The Myth Of The Machine (Volume 1 by Lewis Mumford, Technics and
Civilization)
+ My name s Chellis & I'm In Recovery From Civilization by Chellis Glending
+ Four Arguments For The Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander, which focuses on the destructive impact of a very
spectific technology but which also offers an incredibly strong critique of technological mediation ~ which has a much wider
applicability.
Green Anarchy #8, Spring 2002
Developing action capacity
Note from “Blessed Is The Flame”: The recommended
readings of this article are all in English. A great part of
the topics discussed is missing from Greek literature. Many
of them however will be translated bu us and we will
publish them in the future in the Greek language. See page
18 for more information about the No Trace project.
“We are not special. Our skills are not overly
technical or advanced, and our tools are simple to
acquire. If you are reading this, you are capable of
doing what we do.”
— Anté avédnyn 080V yia empriopd meptoAtkod
00 APD 10 Lakewood teov HITA
While I agree with this sentiment, the reader is left with many
questions about how to develop such a capacity for action, even
if they are motivated. What exactly does it take to not get
caught carrying out heavy actions like arson? This is especially
important in the long run; not getting caught for a single arson
is one thing, but being able to continue carrying out attacks in
the face of heightened repressive attention is quite another.
For anyone who wants to carry out actions like this, but isn’t
doing so yet, I've sketched an outline of the steps I think are
necessary to sustain hard-hitting attacks on domination (limited
to the topic of “operational” considerations, i.e., acquiring
skills). This brief outline is intended to orient you and provide a
“learning path” — each step has recommended reading that
actually goes into the appropriate amount of depth on the
subject. Use the Tails operating system to visit these links,
which runs from a USB drive and leaves no trace on your
computer. What I've written here s by no means definitive, and
I hope to spark a dialogue about any operational aspects I may
have neglected, as well as anything outside this scope that is
important for sustaining and intensifying the capacity for
action.
Deepening bonds
For anyone who doesn’t already have an action group, deciding
who to act with is the first obstacle to overcome. I prefer to act
in groups of two or three; it’s easier to maintain a high level of
trust and agility with just a small handful of people. Most
actions don’t require more than three participants, and when
they do, action groups can collaborate. I prefer not to act alone
because some aspects of actions are less risky when there are at
least two people (for example, having a lookout).
In deciding who to act with, there is a tension between
flexibility and consistency. Acting in several different
configurations allows you to develop trust and experience with
more people, which makes you more resilient in the face of
arrests, burnout, or interpersonal splits. On the other hand,
acting in a more consistent configuration can make it easier to
develop a higher capacity for action in a shorter period of time.
Action groups only form because someone takes the initiative
to propose them to a comrade with whom they want to deepen
affinity and trust.
Affinity
Deciding who to approach in your network should be based on
asense of affinity between you, as this will determine what the
action group decides to focus on. Affinity means sharing
analysis, discovered through getting to know each other, that
leads to prospects for action. It means knowing that you share
goals and want to act in similar ways to pursue them.
The long-term exploration and deepening of affinity across a
network, beyond a specific action group, opens up many more
possibilities for the configuration of action groups to adapt over
time, as well as for collaboration between them. I've chosen to
use the term “action group” rather than “affinity group” to
emphasize that affinity exists in many different constellations,
each with its own potential.
Recommended reading:
+ Archipelago: Affinity, Informal Organization &
Insurrectional ~ Projects
https://sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/history/nothing-
is-finished/
Trust
Trust is contextual — you may trust someone to be a good
friend, but that is different from trusting them with your
freedom. Deciding who to approach in your network should be
based on trust that they can live with the possible consequences
of their actions without betraying their comrades, even if it
means a long prison sentence. Trust is qualitative in a way that
can’t be reduced to a simplistic formula. It's based on an
intimate knowledge that can only come from singular
experiences within a relationship. However, there are
established practices for deepening trust that are still
worthwhile.
Recommended reading:
+ Confidence, Courage, Connection, Trust: A proposal for
security culture
https://www.notrace.how/resources/#confidence-
courage-connection-trust
+ Stop Hunting Sheep: A Guide to Creating Safer
Networks
https://www.notrace.how/resources/#stop-hunting-sheep
Laying the groundwork
Once there are two or three people who want to experiment
with acting together, | recommend starting with actions that do
not have particularly serious consequences if you get caught,
such as breaking windows. This allows you to assess whether
the configuration is a good fit, practice any skills that are new
to anyone, establish operational approaches and a good
“workflow” for the tasks involved, and develop an
interpersonal dynamic that meets everyone’s needs, all in a
relatively low-stakes environment. Progressively increasing the
intensity of the action also gives you the opportunity to practice
moving through fear so that decision-making, communication,
and execution in high-stress situations can remain unimpeded.
Operational security
“Operational security” means the practices that allow you to get
away with crimes. | recommend that your action group first
discuss each of the highlighted resources at the No Trace
Project (https://www.notrace.how/resources/#highlighted-only)
before taking action, in an outdoor and device-free location.
Many of these discussions are well suited for larger affinity
constellations than your action group. This will take a
considerable amount of time, but an in-depth discussion of
these topics will provide a necessary foundation. Don’t make
the mistake of assuming that everyone is already on the same
page. These conversations will also be an opportunity to discuss
how you will prepare for any repression that may result from
your actions.
Action planning
With this foundation in place, you are now in a strong position
to begin action planning. As you gain experience, organizing
and executing actions will become much more natural. What
was initially a lot to keep track of will eventually become
second nature. This is another reason why it's a good idea to
start with actions that aren’t particularly risky.
Recommended reading:
+ How To Have A Fun Night To Forget
https://www.notrace.how/resources/#how-to-have-a-fun-
night-to-forget
This will give you a quick overview of the steps
involved in taking action.
+ Threat Library
https://www.notrace.how/threat-library/zine.html
This will give you a framework for planning. the
operational security measures for a specific action (for
example, what surveillance detection measures you will
take before going to a meeting).
https://www.notrace.how/resources/#topic=direct-action
Materializing your dreams
Before your action group engages in actions that will be more
intensively investigated, it is especially important that you
become competent in two operational security practices:
DNA minimization protocols
DNA minimization protocols (https://www.notrace.how/threat-
library/mitigations/dna-minimization-protocols.html) are
necessary to avoid leaving evidence at a crime scene. However,
these precautions are not perfect, so the action should be
conducted in such a way as to leave nothing behind that could
have DNA traces on it. I recommend learning and practicing this
skill long before you actually need to use it for high-risk actions.
Recommended reading:
+ Resources: DNA topic
hitps://www.notrace. how/resources/#topic=dna
Surveillance detection
If there is no evidence left at crime scenes, and you have
established practices that prevent targeted digital surveillance
from providing leads, investigators will be forced to use physical
surveillance to try to incriminate you. The main goal of physical
surveillance is to surveil the suspect during an action (as they did
for Jeff Luers
[https://www.notrace.how/threat-library/repressive-operations/ca
se-against-jeff-luers.html]), and if that doesn’t work, to surveil
the suspect while they are preparing for an action (buying
materials, doing reconnaissance, etc.), all the while mapping the
suspect’s network to find more suspects.
Detecting physical surveillance (https://www.notrace.how/threat-
library/mitigations/surveillance-detection.html) is a skill that
takes a lot of practice, so I recommend that you start learning it
long before you actually need to use it for high-risk actions. If
you are ever the target of an investigation, this is the only thing
that will prevent the police from following you to an action or
preparation for an action.
Recommended reading:
Resources: Physical surveillance topic
https://wwiw.notrace.how/resources/#topic=physical-
surveillance
Action techniques
Of course, skills related to action techniques are also important.
For example, there are many ways to start a fire. Some are better
than others in terms of reliability and effectiveness, but your
approach should always be adapted to the specific scenario
(target, exit plan, expected response times, etc.). Whatever
techniques you end up using, it’s important to stay open to
innovation rather than limiting yourself to following a guide.
Action technique is also related to operational security: for
example, if you decide that the incendiary device(s) need a
delay, it’s critical to be very confident that the delay won’t fail,
~Page 15~
as this would leave evidence for investigators to take samples
from. Thoroughly test its reliability under the same conditions,
and build in redundancy by using multiple delays on each
device. Depending on the circumstances and terrain, you may
even want to make a plan for noticing if any fires don’t start,
such as choosing an exit route that provides a line of sight and
pausing along it until you see the light of the flames.
Recommended reading:
« A Recpe for Leaving No Trace
hitps://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/09/a-recipe-for-
leaving-no-trace/
« The Simplest Way to Bum a Vehicle
hitps://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/08/21,the-simplest-
way-to-burn-a-vehicle/
© Warior Up
hitps://warriorup.noblogs.org/
Connecting constellations
‘The next step in developing capacity for action requires going
beyond one’s own group. This is where things get really
interesting: coordination between autonomous groups allows
them to accomplish far more than they could on their own, while
their autonomy wards off hierarchy and centralization
(hitps://dimanche.pm/english.html). OF course, conspiring with
more people involves risk and must be balanced with the need
for compartmentalization — the need-to-know basis
(https://www.notrace.how/threat-library/mitigations/need-to-
know-principle.html) can help here.
Affinity is the strongest foundation for a common project among
these groups — while affinity within an action group is based on
interpersonal experience, affinity between action groups is based
more on affinity with the project than with each other. The long-
term search for affinity beyond your action group is what makes
this foundation possible. Informal organization can then grow
between action groups, which is a model that has been
experimented with since the 705
(https://www.elephanteditions.net/library/toward-a-generalised-
attacktoc30). Informal organization is born and shaped by the
pursuit of specific goals, such as preventing the construction of
Cop City through diffuse sabotage. “It doesn’t have a name to
defend or assert, only a project to bring about
(hitps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/avis-de-tempetes-to-start-
over).
‘This outline touches on what I think are the minimal steps
necessary to develop a capacity for hard-hitting action, limited to
the topic of acquiring skills. Much more is needed — learning
other skills beyond this baseline, experimenting with informal
organization while navigating its challenges, ~developing
analyses to understand the changing terrain, studying the
vulnerabilities of domination, and focusing on all the other
aspects that contribute to sustaining and intensifying action.
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest, 22/02/2024
Berlin, Germany: Claim of responsibility for the incendiary
attack on sixteen Amazon vans
Hey Jeff, do you see the clouds of smoke?
On the night between 30/04/2024 and 21/04/2024', with 6
incendiary devices we permanently disabled at least 16 Amazon
vans in a company parking lot in Berlin/Thyssenstrae.
Notoriously, May 1 is the international day of struggle of the
working class. Our gasoline barbecue is meant to incite the
struggle against the oppression of people and nature and fuel the
inevitable clash between exploited and masters.
Ralf Kleber, former head of Amazon-Germany:
“We are much more disturbed by a frostbite than a call for a
labor struggle by ver.di?”
The dismissal or even socialization of large technology
companies and global players such as Amazon, Tesla, Apple,
Facebook or Google is inconceivable and cannot be a prospect
for the exploited. We believe that reforming these companies or
making them more “socially acceptable” is futile because their
power is too great and the ideas and concepts of humanity
inherent in them are diametrically opposed to our idea of
freedom. We believe that the desire to scrutinize and control
every human thought, every social relationship and even the
smallest step in work processes is a threat to life itself. If then
even these smallest dimensions are to be controlled and adapted
to a predetermined appearance, it is violent domination in its
purest form! Often it is the megalomaniac white men who seek
to shape and exploit the whole earth according to their
patriarchal ideas. All this is called progress, although in reality
these patriarchs are only trying to direct society in an all-
powerful way toward their abstruse authoritarian visions of the
future! Jeff, Elon, Mark, Bill and the like, rest assured that you
will not rest!
‘These large corporations plan to dominate, surveil, and exploit
people more and more intensively. Their digital networks,
algorithms and technologies have become indispensable and
permeate all areas of our lives. They affect our existence, our
daily lives, our feelings, our thinking, our communication and
our social relations. The technological onslaught thus also targets
everything that has so far resisted capitalist exploitation. A
dystopia that tends toward its fulfillment: endless amounts of
data are collected, selected, evaluated and analyzed so as to
ensure continuous and real-time analysis of social and relational
processes. They must be monitored in order to predict
developments and (ir)regularities. Small changes and shocks in
the fragile economic market can affect supremacy in the race to
maximize profits.
H Amazon Web Services (AWS) represents the symbol of the
link between the repressive organs of the state and capital. Not
thousand reasons to attack the gears
of wage-labour...”
Source: Indymedia Barcelona
30 April, Volvic, Auvergne, France: Two
people broke into the Volvic Water
Company plant and set fire to a technical
room in the pumping station, destroying
equipment and facilities inside. The factory
was shut down for the next few days.
A slogan was also written in pink paint:
“Water extraction? No, but what about the
water?"
Source: Sans Nom
1 May, Berlin, Germany: At least sixteen
Amazon vans were destroyed using six
incendiary ~ devices. The claim of
responsibility is on page 15.
Source: German Indymedia
1 May, Santiago, Chile: Riots and
incidents occurred from the morning to the
afternoon, as part of the May Day. The
carabineros appeared with auras. Hooded
anarchists armed with various tools and
Molotov bombs clashed with the police,
set up barricades, destroyed various
shopping areas and threw ~ incendiary
devices into Central ~Station. The
carabineros arrested sixteen people,
including five who were holding
firebombs.
Source: Abolition Media
1 May, Portland, USA: Dozens of bank
buildings, Louis Vuitton, Gucei, Starbucks,
and Verizon were attacked during protests,
while protesters later threw stones at a
police station, causing damage. Also on the
same day, an autonomous group attacked a
number of AirBnb properties
Sources: Rose City Counter-Info and
Pugent Sound Anarchists
1 May, Philadelphia, USA: Black bloc
anarchists attacked Airbnb
accommodations during protests, causing
various damages.
Source: Philly Anti-Capitalist
1 May, France: In Toulouse, Lyon, Nantes
and Paris, there were incidents during the
May Day demonstrations, which led to the
injury of dozens of police officers, arrests
and property damage. In Nancy, after the
protests ended, hooded anarchists attacked
the bookshop Les Deux Cités, which is a
far-right hotbed in the area, destroying the
glass and the door and painting the facade
with anarchist and anti-fascist slogans.
Sources: Attaque and Sans Nom
2 May, New York, USA: Anarchists
attacked various heavy machines of
Caterpillar, due to the cooperation of this
industry with the Zionist regime.
“...Caterpillar is clearly an agent and
symbol of terror. We strike against it
today to show solidarity with those
who lost their lives to the Caterpillar
D9 armed bulldozer. Since Caterpillar
is involved in the war, it can be
attacked in any area. We are striking
the Caterpillar today to show
solidarity and appreciation for the
Palestinian ~ fighters who are an
inspiration to all freedom fighters
around the world...”
Source: Abolition Media
3 May, Santiago, Chile: Incendiary
agitation in memory of Comrade Mauricio
Morales.
Source: Informativo Anarquista
4 May, Bern, Switzerland: The area
around the Reitschule social center turned
into a battlefield. Barricades were set up
and there were clashes with the police.
Many people who were at the Reitschule
contributed to the action.
“....Police harass and intimidate people
in and around the Reitschule almost
every day. They chase them, throw
them to the ground, humiliate them,
arrest them, lock them inside. The
Reitschile was once an autonomous
space guarded against raiding cops. A
place where problems were solved
collectively and without the
involvement of the state, and
maybesomething like that can still be
done...”
Source: German Indymedia
4 May, Italy: Anarchist prisoner Luca
Dolce, known as Stecco, carried out a
beating with prison staff in solidarity with
eight comrades arrested in Genoa on the
same day and imprisoned in Marassi and
Pontedecimo.
“...Prison is not the end of struggle
and solidarity, but its strengthening
and continuation...”
The amests were made because the
comrades got into an argument with some
police officers who almost hit a dog with a
car. They were eventually released on
parole.
Source: Il Rovescio
4 May, Barcelona, Catalonia: Vandalism
of two Caixabanc ATMs on Avinguda del
Parallel.
Since April, there have been other
anonymous actions against Caixabanc in
Barcelona. Exact dates are unknown.
‘These actions are in response to the call of
the anarchist collective Sobrenmotius for
offensive actions against this particular
bank until it withdraws from the trial of
five comrades who are accused of sabotage
against bank properties during the 2022
May Day riots in Barcelona. In particular,
the partners are accused of organised crime
of violent extremism, while they
themselves did not even know each other
before their arrests.
Sources: Indymedia Barcelona
5 May, Tarn, Occitania, France: A
construction machine set on fire at the A69
motorway construction site in Puylaurens.
The machine belonged to the company
EHTP, a subsidiary of NGE.
Source: Attaque
5 May, Quebec, Canada: Anarchists
planted five incendiary devices at the
construction site of Northvolt's electric car
battery factory but failed to activate due to
humidity.
Source: Montréal Contre-Information
6 May, Berlin, Germany: Two Bauer
drilling rigs were destroyed using
incendiary devices, gasoline and tires
placed on their cables.
Their action was done in solidarity with
the struggle of the indigenous Wet'suwet'en
of Canada, who for years have been
fighting against the eco-killing natural gas
pipeline construction projects on their
lands. Bauer participates in these projects
by supplying its equipment.
Source: German Indymedia
10 May, Santiago, Chile: Incendiary
agitation in memory of Comrade Mauricio
Morales.
Source: Contra Info
11 May, Berlin, Germany: Attack with
stones, butyric acid and paint on the
Bundeswehrverband and Zukunft-Umwelt-
Gesellscha, two institutes associated with
militarism, war and the false promises of
green capitalism.
Source: German Indymedia
13 May, New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean:
The indigenous Kanak rebellion against
French colonialism begins.
13 May, Leipzig, Germany: A number of
Tesla cars were destroyed by arson, but
most of the incendiary devices failed to
activate due to technical errors, limiting
the damage.
Source: German Indymedia
14 May, California, USA: The President
of the University of California was
attacked due to the university's
involvement with the Israeli state. The
~Page 16~
surprisingly, AWS has also specialized in armaments. For
example, offering a new type of data center that will be used to
gain military advantage anywhere in the world: the so-called
AWS — Modular Data Centre (AWS — MDC), which is basically
a modular database system placed in a container. It provides
access to many of amazon’s cloud-based services and can be
easily expanded with additional modules (containers). It can be
electric carts!
downloaded anywhere, which is a clear military advantage: of
course, Amazon limits the availability of AWS — MDC to U.S.
government customers eligible for “Joint Warfighting Cloud
Capability” (JWCC). In this case, it is the U.S. Department of
Defense that will be able to acquire cloud computing capabilities
and services directly from commercial providers of such services
(including Mircosoft, Google, Oracle, etc.) at the desired speed
and at all classification levels, from core to tactical.
‘The struggle against the exploitation of people and nature is a
struggle against the wars of the rulers, their military, their
armament industry! For the social revolution!
‘There are endless arguments and possib
to an exciting week of action against Tesla.
Hi Jeff! Do you think your ego s as big as Amazon’s tower? Can
you see the clouds of smoke from up there?
Elon, your GIGAntesco ego won’t be able to protect your
es for attacking
companies like Amazon and Tesla. That is why we look forward
Our greetings go out to all those who took to the streets last
night at the “Take back the Night” demonstration, to all the
anarchists and anarchists in prison, to the comrades and
comrades affected by the “We are conspiring” proceedings, and
toall those who are currently on the run.
Notes from Italian counter-information project La Nemesi:
‘There is likely an error in the date. From what can be leaned from
German regime media, the action was completed on the night of
April 30-May 1, 2024.
“German trade union, one of the largest in all of Germany.
’In German Wir haben eine Verabredung. This is a campaign in
solidarity with two anarchists who, in February 2023, were located
by a German federal police helicopter (apparently flying a routine
reconnaissance mission) in a Berlin railway tunnel. The cops who
arrived in large numbers at the scene clai
to have found near the
tunnel, in a cable shaft, a backpack containing incendiary material, as
well as other items of great interest to their investigation (gloves,
radios, a list of license plates of plainclothes cops’ vehicles,
lighters...). The two comrades were taken into custody and released
after 40 hours in custody. They are currently subject to precautionary
measures (requirement to sign), awaiting trial for “conspiracy to
commit crimes (fire) in conspiracy with unknown persons.” The trial
will begin on May 27, 2024. This is the website of the solidarity
campaign: https://verabredet.noblogs.org/
Making our actions count
Note from “Blessed Is The Flame”: Even
though the article uses as an example
the attack against the US military
industry, the same reasoning applies for
every other section of the techno-
industrial complex, both in USA and in
every other capitalist country. The
development of such offensive strategy
requires good knowledge of the
economic functioning of any industry or
company that s to be targeted.”
A recent text outlining a path for
developing action capacity (pages 14-15)
concludes that “studying the
vulnerabilities of domination” also needs
attention. If a capacity for destruction is
present, then the question naturally arises
of how to aim it so that this destruction
hits where it hurts. Let’s imagine what
such an approach might entail by turning
our gaze to a central pillar of global
power and counterinsurgency: the U.S.
“defense industry.”
Anarchists and other rebels based in the
US. are well-placed to strike at its war
machine—the *60s saw a prolonged social
upheaval driven primarily by this
objective, and in the many years since,
anarchists here have occasionally moved
beyond opposing war to attacking it. The
current genocide in Palestine has
heightened social tensions against U.S.
militarism, though the actions of
anarchists in this moment have mostly
had little impact on their targets and not
contributed much to the popular
imaginary of how militarism can be
attacked. What could equip anarchists to
carry out more significant strikes, to hone
a quality of action that goes beyond the
symbolic? To this end, the proposal put
forward by “Fragments for an Insurgent
Struggle Against Militarism and the
World that Needs It”' deserves discussion:
to focus on well-conceived attacks that
target vulnearbilities in the production
and infrastructure of war.
Breaking the links in the chain
The production of war starts here: the
US. is by far the world’s largest arms
exporter. Of SIPRI’s “Top 100 Arms-
Producing and Military ~ Services
Companies,” 42 are based in the U.S.,
accounting for 51% of total global
revenues. Most visible are the factories
that chumn out arms, ammunition and
other war equipment. Less visible are the
supply chains that transform raw materials
into the components the factories need
(production stage supply ~chains) or
transport the finished product into the
hands of States (distribution stage supply
chains). “Fragments for an Insurgent
Struggle...” proposes to focus destructive
attention on the upstream supplier
bottlenecks inherent in high-tech
production, an industry “dependent on
numerous ~ expensive and _difficult-to-
obtain resources,” rather than on the well-
secured assembly plants:
Arson attacks on the vehicles
of arms companies and their
suppliers, as well as on the
vehicles o the logistics
companies that transported
their war material, etc., as
well as a perhaps even larger
series of paint attacks on the
headquarters of these
companies_offered, and_still
offer, a militant perspective of
intervention in war production.
And yet: it would be news to
me that supplies to the war
fronts ever came to a standstill
in the process. The
interruption of production was
too minor, the sabotage of
logistics oo insignificant.
Nothing that could not have
been made up by an additional
night shift. And the financial
damage? Well, let’s say that
the management of these
companies make
calculations ~ in other
dimensions.
It is by no means my
resistance too insignificant.
None of this is a reason for me
to refrain from attacking.
Rather, I think it is worthwhile
to reconsider established
strategies from time to time
and, if necessary, to revise
them when it becomes
apparent that one’s actions
within them are largely
ineffective becoming
predictable.
The world’s largest defense contractor,
Lockheed Martin, saw its annual revenue
drop by 8.9% between 2021 and 2022 due
to supply chain constraints (in other
words, it couldn’t produce $6 billion
worth of weapons). Of the 41 other U.S.
companies in the “Top 100,” 31 also saw
their annual revenue decline for the same
reason. By identifying the specific supply
chain bottlenecks that are already severely
hampering these leviathanic entities, it
becomes possible to exacerbate shortages
in a way that actually impacts weapons
production.
Supply chains consist of “tiers” and look
more like a network than a linear “chain.”
First tier suppliers directly supply a
company like Lockheed Martin, second
tier suppliers supply the first tier, and so
on. The average U.S. aerospace company
relies on about 200 first-tier suppliers, and
the second and third tiers involve more
than 12,000 companies. Irreplaceable
suppliers are called “sole-source,” and are
often present at all tiers. As one engineer
recently warned in the trade press,
“Dassault has five thousand suppliers for
its Rafale, and all it takes to block
everything is for one to get stuck.”
or
intention to talk down these
Supplier Supplier Supplier
attempts at intervention, to
discourage people from
attacking even when the
enemy seems overwhelming
and one’s own room to
maneuver seems too small
in comparison, one’s own
Supplier Supplier
In addition to supplying product
components, supply chains must also
provide specialized factory machinery.
For example, the production of the
machinery requied for the
microelectronics (semiconductors) used
in virtually all military technology is a
severe bottleneck causing shortages in
this sector. In February 2022, the
Department of Defense (DoD) released
an action plan for “Securing Defense-
Critical Supply Chains” which warns that
“the high-tech company ASML
(Netherlands) is currently the sole-source
for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography
tools that are required to mass produce
semiconductor die in technology nodes
below 7nm”. Such consolidation increases
solesource risk in the global
microelectronics supply chain.” ASML
produces only about 40 machines per year
(each taking 12-18 months and involving
more than 1,000 first-tier suppliers). They
have a $50 billion backlog and their
closest competitors are a decade behind
EUV technology®.
All supply chains have bottlenecks, and
most have “single points of failure,” it’s
just a matter of locating them. The tools
to gain this visibility are included in the
fild of “supply chain risk
management”—our enemies. are
publishing much of this research. The
same DoD action plan describes
“persistent sub-tier’, supply chain
vulnerabilities, from raw materials and
chemical ~ shortages to critical
subcomponents produced by fragile
suppliers.” It goes on to provide a high-
level overview of supply chain issues for
“areas in which critical vulnerabilities
pose the most pressing threat”: missiles,
batteries, castings, microelectronics,
and critical minerals.
More recently, for the first time in its
history, the DoD released a “National
Defense Industrial Strategy” to provide a
roadmap for “developing more resilient
and innovative supply chains.” Their
plans are not infallible—one advisor
describes the document as lacking “a
focus on long-term solutions to supply
chain issues that have plagued the defense
industry.” Equally interesting are the
publications ~ of RAND’s National
Security Research Division, especially
those of its National Security Supply
Chain Institute.
The infrastructure of peace
is the infrastructure of war
Logistics means the movement and
storage of goods between different points
in the supply chain (e.g. from
manufacturing plants to assembly plants
to distribution centers). Logistics works
through infrastructure. Not all supply
chain_ problems involve ~logistics—for
example, a supplier’s factory burning
down has nothing to do with whether the
component can be moved efficiently, but
rather whether it can be produced.
‘The angles of attack can be adapted to the
context: a supply vulnerability depends
on supplier bottlenecks, and a logistics
vulnerability depends on infrastructure
bottlenecks. For example, an arms factory
may be located in a region with ample
infrastructural redundancy that would
make sabotaging logistics difficult, but
perhaps it has a sole-source supplier.
Conversely, the factory may have
invested in building a supply chain with
significant redundancy, but its product is
shipped to market through ports with
limited rail connections.
Regardless of supply and logistics flows
(which, it must be emphasized, are
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generally fraught with severe
bottlenecks), a factory needs to be
connected to a functioning electrical grid
in order to operate, and it often needs to
be connected to the Internet via fiber
optic cables. Energy and
telecommunications vulnerabilities
extend far beyond the well-secured
perimeter of a factory, decentralized to
such an extent that even a militarized
police force would be incapable of
protecting them.
To return to the proposal in “Fragments
for an Insurgent Struggle...,” it suggests
that an anti-militarist practice could
sabotage “the entire logistical system in
which these weapons are shipped, loaded,
transported by rail or truck, rather than
limiting itself to attacks on logistics
companies,” as well as focusing on “the
frequent freight rail connections of
‘weapons companies’ production sites.”
‘The “dual-use” infrastructure that serves
logistics quickly ~ becomes the
infrastructure of war when the State goes
to war or has to turn against its own
population in an insurgency scenario. The
text “War Starts Here: Let’s Cripple its
Infrastructure Where We Can™ criticizes
that “Fragments for an Insurgent
Struggle...” leaves out “the most
important raw material of war: oil or
energy in general. Especially at the
beginning of a war, the amount of energy
needed to move troops is gigantic, but
throughout the war, fuel has to be
transported from some stockpile and/or
refinery to the front, where it is needed to
fuel the engines of the war machines. And
especially when a war is not taking place
directly in their own territory, but the
logistics of supplying the troops with
energy pass through this territory, it might
be worthwhile to take a closer look at this
infrastructure.”
In a very inspiring recent initiative,
comrades did exactly that” in the context
of the EU’s infrastructure of war. Their
words are no less relevant here:
We encourage people to make
their own analyses of the
military-industrial complex,
its raw materials and its
logistics, with no less than its
efficient sabotage in mind. We
feel the lack of such analysis
all the more sharply because
we believe that our ability to
fight ~ domination (and ~ its
wars) is irrevocably
dependent on knowing its
infrastructures, understanding
the mechanisms that make
them function and, not least,
establishing the necessary
skills and a certain routine for
attacking identified
vulnerabilities.
An insurgent
against militarism
Identifying vulnerabilities is certainly a
step in the right direction. Mapping the
“defense industrial base” with an eye to
its vulnerabilities is an enormous and
long-term project that anarchists in the
U.S. have barely begun.® An initiative in
the German context could provide
inspiration: “Attack the Aims Industry’ It
collects companies and institutions into
the categories of producers, suppliers,
logistics, research, financing, and
legitimisation. They have written a
tutorial sharing their approach entitled
“An Introduction to Mapping the Local
Ams Industry and its Vulnearble
struggle
Points.”. As in the *60s, disillusioned
soldiers and veterans are well positioned
to undermine the military with their
access to insider knowledge, and this
information would be easier for them to
share anonymously if an equivalent
project existed for the U.S. context.
Studying the enemy to identify
vulnerabilities enables a quality of action,
but putting that knowledge into practice
is what makes it truly consequential.
What are the curent obstacles to
anarchists developing a capacity for
action on a significant scale, organized in
small autonomous groups that can
coordinate around a particular focus? In
other words, what needs to happen for
more anarchists to establish the necessary
skills and a certain routine for attacking
identified vulnerabilities?
Only by fostering an incisive quality of
action can we hope to bring the factories
of death to a standstill, to disrupt the
infrastructure of war, and more broadly,
to make meaningful contributions to the
social upheavals on the horizon. The task
at hand is not straightforward, but that
does not make it any less necessary.
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest,
02/03/2024
“https://actforfree.noblogs.org/
2022/04/10/publication-war-against-war/
“Microelectronics ~ products ~ containing
silicon die chips are typically described as
being manufactured at a certain
technology node (e.g., 45 nanometers),
which refers to the dimension in nm of
the smallest element in a transistor. State-
of-the-Art (SOTAY) is currently considered
to be <10nm and is used in advanced
computing (data centers, artificial
intelligence, supercomputers, etc.). State-
of-the-Practice (SOTP) is between 10nm-
90nm and is generally what is used in
conventional weapons, although today’s
SOTA will become SOTP and legacy in
the future. The industry needs ASML's
EUV technology to keep Moore’s Law
alive (“the number of transistors on
microchips doubles every 2 years”),
which is necessary for computing to
progress. The DoD action plan goes on to
say that “although most of DoD’s current
systems are reliant on State-of-the-
Practice (SOTP) and legacy
microelectronics, State-of-the-Art
(SOTA) microelectronics are DoD’s
primary differentiator for asymmetric
technology ~ advantage over potential
adversaries.”
*hitps://actforfree.noblogs.org/
2022/09/02/asml-semiconductor-
dependency/
“https://actforfree.noblogs.org/
2022/04/10/publication-war-against-war/
Shitps://actforfree.noblogs.org/
2023/12/19/ten-t-military-logistics-and-
availability-using-the-scan-med-corridor-
and-its-current-sub-projects-as-an-
example/
6In Greece, a first notable direction
towards this direction is found in chapter
“The War Industry in Greece” of the
brochure “Against War, Against Peace”
(2020), where the addresses of all
companies and industries related to the
military-industrial complex are listed.
“https://ruestungsindustrie.noblogs.org/
“htps://ruestungsindustrie.noblogs.org/
eine-einfuehrung-in-die-kartografierung-
lokaler-ruestungsindustrie-und-ihrer-
sensiblen-punkte/
facade was painted over using a fire
extinguisher, the windows were broken,
500 cockroaches were released into the
building and a second fire extinguisher
was emptied inside the office.
Source: Indybay
May 15, Concepcién, Chile:
barricades in memory of
Morales.
Source: Informativo Anarquista
May 15, Eugene, Oregon, USA: Breaking
attack on Starbucks in solidarity with
Palestine.
“...While Starbucks isn’t playing a
central role in the genocide the Israeli
military is waging, Starbucks is
symbolic of an AmeriKKKan psyche
and economy that fuels imperialism
[..] We won’t stand aside and let the
AmeriKKKan ~ economy continue
unabated when it’s a system founded
on and actively fueling colonialism
and genocide...”
Source: Puget Sound Anarchists
17 May, Santiago, Chile: Another
incendiary agitation in memory of
Comrade Mauricio Morales.
Source: Contra Info
17 May, Bloomington, Indiana, USA:
Unknown persons claimed responsibility
for slashing the tires of seven military
vehicles and seven vehicles of a security
company.
“...Those who seek to maintain the
peace I this time of upheaval are
enemies of freedom. Those that carry
out the ongoing death march are our
top targets.”
Source: Unravel
17 May, Paris, France: Four architectural
firms were targeted for their involvement
in the construction of administrative
detention centers. The windows of their
buildings were broken, glue was put on
their locks and slogans were painted.
Source: Indymedia Lille
17 May, Cologne, Germany: The local
headquarters of the far-right organization
Opus Dei was attacked on the occasion of
the international day against hostility
towards queer people.
Source: German Indymedia
18 May, Toulouse, France: An NGE
drilling rig operating on the new Toulouse
metro line was set on fire, resulting in the
death of a worker who died at the metro
construction site on 4 March.
Source: Communiquer Relayer Informer
Combattre
18 May, Athens, Greece: Anarchists
ambushed the police guarding the subway
construction site in Exarchia Square and
began running in panic trying to escape the
fires. The action was done in memory of
comrade Mauricio Morales and against the
gentrification of Exarchia. The claim of
responsibility is on page 7.
Source: Athens Indymedia
19 May, New York, USA: A police bus is
set on fire in Brooklyn in response to
police attacks and repression against
people demonstrating against _the
Palestinian genocide and against Cop City.
“...The NYPD are violent suffocators
of the people’s voice and will. They
are terrorizers of the homeless in our
streets, and are in concert with the
genocidal IDF, who train them to
better butcher our freedom.
They do it all with no consequences in
their future and no fear in their faces
~ we can change that with fire...”
Source: Never Sleep
21 May, Helikon, Boeotia, Greece: As
part of the fight against the destruction of
nature and traditional economic activities
by wind farms, the Helikonean Wolves
once again tore down a wind mast from the
area where wind turbines are to be
Burning
Mauricio
installed.
Source: Athens Indymedia
22 May, Santiago, Chile: Another day of
chaos in Chile's capital, where anarchists
rioted in memory of comrade Mauricio
Morales.
Source: Contra Info
22 May, Bogota, Colombia: Hooded
students set up barricades outside the
National ~ Pedagogical University and
clashed with police, throwing Molotov
bombs. The police opened fire when some
of the students parked a bus at the entrance
of the campus to prevent entry, leading to
several injuries.
The action was in memory of Mauricio
Morales and against the government.
Source: Informativo Anarquista
22 May, Lyon, France: Anonymous
activists smashed the windows of DETS,
the state agency that funds emergency
accommodation and s responsible for
housing the homeless.
“They are the ones who, together with
the prefecture, chose to leave 14,000
people on the streets. In Lyon you
have to wait 5 years for social
housing, and 3 years for emergency
\accommodation.”
Source: Indymedia Lille
22 May, Barcelona, Catalonia: Once
again Caixabanc ATMs were targeted.
Source: Indymedia Barcelona
23 May, Toulouse, France: A 5G antenna
in L'Union, in the northern suburbs of
‘Toulouse, was destroyed by arson.
“For capitalism to expand it needs
flows of goods, managers and labor,
flows of energy and communication.
The third metro line, the A69
motorway, the Toulouse-Bordeaux
LGV line and the 5G installation are
all new infrastructures that serve the
unbridled accumulation of capital.”
Source: Indymedia Lille
24 May, Lacanau, New Aquitaine,
France: A new 5G antenna that was
scheduled to be raised the same day was
destroyed by an arson attack before it
could be installed.
Source: Sans Nom
24 May, Lacroisille, Occitania, France:
A GIEC cell signing as Groupement
dInterdiction d’Ecocide Cosmique
destroyed a dump truck and an excavator
with arson near a construction site on the
A69 highway.
Source: Sans Nom
24 May, Barcelona, Catalonia: Another
Caixabanc attack was reported. This time a
building and the bank's ATM in Santa
Coloma de Gramenet were targeted.
Source: Indymedia Barcelona
2425 May, Santiago, Chile: Over the
course of two days, students from three
different high schools took to the streets,
set up barricades, hung banners, threw
leaflets and clashed with carabineros
throwing Molotov bombs in memory of
Mauricio Morales.
Source: Informativo Anarquista
25 May, Barcelona, Catalonia:
Caixabanc ATM vandalised on Rambla de
Catalunya.
Source: Indymedia Barcelona
26 May, Leipzig, Germany: A day before
the start of the trial of two comrades
charged with conspiracy to commit a
crime, an arson attack on a federal police
vehicle was carried out by an anonymous
group as an act of solidarity.
Source: knack[punkt]
27 May, San Francisco, US
Bank vandalised in solidarity
Palestine.
Source: Indybay
27 May, Portland, USA: An unknown
person shot several surveillance cameras in
various areas of the city, destroying them
Chase
with
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Athens, Greece: Claim of
responsibility by the Pro-
Palestine Saboteurs for the sabotage of an Israeli hotel
While Palestinians die of thirst, Israeli tourism businesses do
gold jobs in the Greek territory, such as in Athens, where the
position of occupations that have offered refuge for the
oppressed have taken luxury accommodation for tourists. It is
another form of convention and colonialism, in which Israeli
entrepreneurs are learned. As a symbolic movement of solidarity
with the Palestinian people, we sabotaged the supply of water to
one of these colonial hotels in Exarchia (zoia) by cutting the
supply and cementing the clock. The Israeli Zoia Property
Investment manages at least 19 buildings in Athens. Sagi Rubin,
an executive of the business, is in the investment as one of the
largest in the Greek market.
Israel, in the context of the genoconal warfare launching in the
i
Gaza Strip, controls the flow of water. It is obvious how this
control is absolute power over the life and death of the
Palestinians in this piece of land. In addition to the flow it can
also control the quality of the water, which is infected. The
sources of drinking water in Gaza were already limited before
the new outburst of genocide. Drilling from neighboring states,
such as Israel, have almost drained the aquifer. After October 7,
Israel cut off the supply of water and electricity it controls.
Within 5 months of the genocide, Israel has leveled all
infrastructure necessary for survival. Now every day, except for
the bombs and bullets, hunger and thirst are killing. 1t is a
sadistic excruciating weapon that brings slow death. At least 25
people have died of dehydration and hunger, according to
Palestinian authorities in the north of Gaza in recent days.
For this crime it is certainly not enough to thirst for some
tourists or stay unwashed for a few days.
This crime calls for VENGEANCE.
‘To sabotage Israeli capital profitability everywhere
To block Israeli-Greek alliance
Freedom in Palestine
For anyone who intends to take action in this direction, the
following is the following Israeli interests of Zoia: 25 Metsovo
25, Asclepius 102, Sarantapichou and Kosma Melodou and
Straw Radio:
Interview with a
member of the No
Trace Project
In 10 March, anarchist radio show The Final Straw Radio (TFSR),
based in the United States, published an interview with a memeber of
the No Trace Project. It discusses the project’s objectives, threat
modeling, state repression, physical surveillance, covert surveillance
devices, and much more.
Final
TFSR: Would you introduce yourself, a psuedonym and pronoun we can
use maybe, what part of the world you’re based in and maybe how you
got interested in the technical side of activism?
Aster: You can call me Aster, my preferred pronoun is the singular they.
'm from Europe and I've been involved with the No Trace Project since
its beginning about three years ago.
If by “technical side” you mean collecting texts and managing a website,
Ithink I've always liked this kind of work. It’s calm and ordered work. I
think in another life I could have been a librarian.
If by “technical side” you mean working on the topics of surveillance
and security: I think it first started some years ago, when I felt frustrated
about how comrades around me approached these topics.
1 felt that they were spending a lot of time thinking about how to fight
cops in the streets, the ones you encounter during demonstrations and
riots, and not enough time thinking about how to fight the cops in the
offices. And the cops in the offices are the investigators, the intelligence
analysts, the ones that are often responsible for sending our comrades to
jail for long sentences and disrupting our networks. So, I felt like there
was a need to spend more time countering this aspect of repression, the
surveillance, the investigations.
Also, 1 felt like many traditional leftist organizations were working on
the issue of mass surveillance, of the “wrongful” surveillance of law-
abiding citizens. The revelations made by Snowden in 2013 of the mass
surveillance practices of the NSA of course helped to put the focus on
that. But I felt like not enough people were working on the issue of
targeted surveillance, on what the State does when they target specific
people. A number of comrades around the world had of course
developed thoughts on this, but I felt that these thoughts were scattered
around the Internet and hard to find. So that’s how the No Trace Project
started: as a central place to gather zines and articles made by comrades
on targeted surveillance, to make them more accessible.
TFSR: Thanks so much for speaking with us. Would you talk about the
No Trace Project and how it developed? Did it develop out of any
particular surveillance coming to light that you’d want to mention?
Aster: 1 don’t think it developed out of any specific thing, but I was
certainly influenced by surveillance happening around me. Some close
offices in Homer 18.
Pro-Palestine Saboteurs
Call of support for the
No Trace Project
The No Trace Project is a collection of tools for the
assistance of anarchists and other rebels to understand
the abilities of their enemies, to undermine attempts to
monitor them, and essentially to act without being
catched.
On their website (notrace.how"), texts, brochures and
other media about monitoring, operational security,
repressive methods used by the enemy and what
measures we can take against them are collected, as
well as a database of surveillance devices that has
been detected by comrades isprovided.
We invite our readers to assist this important project
by sending them texts related to these subjects, and/or
translating into Greek or other languages the texts
already available on the Website, and sending
information and photos of each surveillance device,
such as microphones, cameras, etc., which you may
have identified.
The email address of
notrace@autistici.org
the project is:
You can also send your submissions to our own email
address, blessedistheflame@riseup.net, to include
them in our printed versions, such as in this
newspaper.
We have already translated and published a brochure
("Who wrote this?") about modern methods of the
newspaper, although by mistake we had mentioned the
old name of the project, "Centre for Counter-
Surveillance Resources".
No trace, no case
“There is also an onion address for this site. We
recommend accessing the site using Tor and, ideally,
through the Tails operating system. We also recommend
that communication being done through PGP encryption.
close friends were facing intense police
surveillance and harassment and we
didn', in my opinion, deal with it
appropriately, which led to a lot of
disruption in our network, and people
getting burned out. A distant friend was
arrested after their DNA was found on
an intact incendiary device. I was
particularly frustrated about DNA in
general because so many anarchists
worldwide were getting arrested, and
are still getting arrested, because of
DNA traces. And a number of those
arrests look like they could be prevented
if people were better informed.
So, anyway, the No Trace Project started
in 2021 as a website that collected
resources, zines, articles, about
surveillance. The website design was
really bad at the time, it's a bit better
now. We were collecting stuff but not
writing our own content.
Later, we started to feel inspired to write
our own content, and we decided to
tackle the issue of *threat modeling*.
Threat modeling is a formal exercise
where you identify the threats you face
in a specific context and what you can
do about them. So for example, in the
context of an action, you identify the
techniques that the police could use
against you, and how you can protect
from those techniques. The result of the
exercise, the list of threats, is your
*threat model*.
In some anarchist circles, there’s this
recurring situation where someone asks
what security measures they should take
in such or such context, for example if
they can take their phone to a demo, or
what email provider they should use, and
people answer “it depends on your threat
model”. But how does one determine
what s their threat model? What
surveillance techniques are available to
the police, and in which contexts? And
how can we protect against them? In
2023 we added a new section to our
website, the “Threat Library”, to try to
answer those questions. It’s a work-in-
progress, we’re adding content regularly,
feel free to check it out
Later in 2023 we got in touch with
another project called “Ears and Eyes”, a
big database of hidden surveillance
devices used against anarchists: bugs,
hidden cameras, GPS trackers on
vehicles. We agreed that it would be
good to move their project to our
website, so we did that.
And 1 think that's all for the current
developments.
TFSR: What are some of the shorter and
longer term goals of the project?
Aster: In terms of shorter goals I would
say to keep our website updated, by
adding new resources, new content to
our Threat Library, new cases to Ears
and Eyes. We have several original
publications that should be released
soon, including an original zine on
physical surveillance, and an English
translation of a French zine on DNA.
Our Threat Library currently lists about
twenty repressive operations that have
targeted anarchists around the world and
I'd like to add more, to reach maybe
forty or fifty operations. We're also
working on various translations with the
help of external translators, I'm hoping
to have our Threat Library translated to
French in the next few months, and
probably to Brazilian Portuguese at
some point. Maybe German too.
In terms of longer goals, I guess we aim
to become a good resource about
surveillance and security for anarchists
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worldwide. I'm not yet sure what this
will entail, we’re discovering that as we
€0 on. A sort of vision I have is to
encourage the creation of small,
decentralized groups working on issues
related to surveillance and security and
then sharing their work with the larger
anarchist movement. A bit like affinity
groups of action, but for technical
research. Like, imagine a group in one
country researching cheap ways to hack
or take down police drones, or good
protocols against DNA traces, or an
analysis of thermal imaging used by
police helicopters, and then sharing their
research publicly so it can be used or
expanded by other groups in other
countries. Ideally, I'd like our project to
encourage that.
TFSR: We've tried our hand in this
project years ago to try to talk through
some. technological surveillance issues
and ways people were talking about
evading them based on a US model, like
having easy access to unregistered sim
cards and setting up psuedonymous
phones, an attempt to normalize comfort
around recognizing the methods we
understood the state to employ.
Technical knowledge and skills are an
area that many people don’t think they
have a proclivity for and so becomes
specialized, but I think of it more as a
series of muscles that you strengthen
through use as opposed to something
innate and inborn. Is there an element of
NoTrace.How of hoping to reach a wider
audience who may be on the cusp of
increasing their skillsets or is it mostly
just directed at those technical research
affinity groups?
Aster: Ah yes, that’s a good question. T
think in terms of *content*, we want to
focus on sort of higher-end security
practices, that are relevant to people who
risk being targeted by the State, people
who risk years or decades in prison. But
we do want to encourage everyone to
follow these security practices, or at
least some of them, and we do want to
make them as accessible as possible. We
want to encourage everyone to have
good security because, even if someone
isn’t doing anything too risky, maybe
their friend does, or their friend’s friend.
Individual security reinforces collective
security. And, just to be clear, this is not
just about tech security, the majority of
our content isn’t about technology. And
while some non-technology ~security
practices require developing a specific
skill set, for example detecting if you're
being followed by cops, some other just
require good communication skills, for
example the need-to-know principle,
which simply ~states that sensitive
information should only be shared when
it is necessary to do so, and to the extent
necessary.
So then there’s the question of how to
make our project accessible to a variety
of people, how to make it a good place
to learn. We try to write our original
content in a clear way that doesn’t
assume too much prior knowledge from
our readers. All of our original content is
available as printable zines so it can be
read and shared away from computers.
And, of course, we want to do
translations, a lot of translations.
One thing I haven’t talked about yet, that
is somewhat related to this topic, is
another reason 1 got involved with the
No Trace Project: I wanted to codify
knowledge that is often transmitted only
informally in anarchist circles. At least
in the circles where I was active, many
security practices were not codified,
were not shared in meetings or written
down in zines. For example, it took me
years to understand the dangers of DNA
because it wasn’t a topic that was
discussed openly. Security practices
were transmitted informally, sure, but
that’s not welcoming of newer or more
isolated comrades who may not be part
of the informal discussions. I'd like our
project to be welcoming of those
comrades too.
TFSR: Yeah, that seems like an
important point, the codification as you
put it, or at least the bringing of those
practices to more peoples awareness.
It also seems like there is an opportunity
here for spreading the word of instances
of movement surveillance and
interference, anti-repression organizing
and possibly mapping state and para-
state strategies and methods so as to
build more resilient resistance. Can you
talk about this as well as possible
repression or shifts in adversarial
methodology you all might expect in
response to the public exposure of these
surveillance methods and tools. Like,
could someone face charges for releasing
information about this state spying?
[please feel free to call out this logic in
your response]
Aster: Indeed, I'd like our project to
help spread the word about specific
instances of repression. About instances
of repression, many anarchist groups are
focused on solidarity and prisoner
support, and while I believe this focus is
extremely important, 1 feel like
sometimes the more factual, technical
aspects of repression are neglected. So in
relation to instances of repression, I'd
like our project to focus on, like: “What
happened? What happened for these
comrades to end up in jail, or for this
promising movement to disappear? If
they are able to tell us, can we learn
from their experiences?” And 1 guess
that showing comrades that we take their
experiences seriously and that we are
dedicated to learn from them can also be
a form of solidarity.
About, will the State adapt because we
reveal their strategies? I think at a local
level, they can adapt. For example if you
notice cops following you in the streets,
it's generally in your advantage to not
show them that you noticed them,
otherwise they will adapt and be more
discreet. But at a global level, T don’t
think the State adapts well, and when
they adapt I think it's more likely to be
because of mew technological
developments, for example. At a global
level, I think it’s always in our advantage
to reveal their strategies.
To the question of if someone could get
charges for revealing the State
strategies? Yes, certainly, people have
been charged for that in the past. As
always, whether a person will be charged
with something has a lot to do with the
political motivation of the State to
charge them, which can be hard to
predict. And of course, we can try to stay
anonymous when we reveal State
strategies, to make repression less likely.
TFSR: A lot of these examples of
physical surveillance come from Europe,
where you mentioned that you are from.
1 feel like this is the stuff we saw in the
USA 15 years ago but doesn’t feel as
common these days.
1 know the EU has much stricter privacy
laws than the USA when it comes to
what data tech companies can track. I
and causing hundreds of thousands of
dollars in damage.
Source: Unravel
27 May, Santiago, Chile: Buning of a
bus in memory of anarchist comrade
Mauricio Morales.
Responsibility was claimed by the
Incendiary Cell for Individual Action
“Severino Di Giovanni” of the Black
Revenge / Informal Anarchist Federation
(FALIRF). The disclaimer is on page 7.
Source: Informativo Anarquista
27-28 May, Saix, Occitania, France:
About ten people attacked a construction
site on the A69 motorway at midnight with
stones and mortars. The gendarmerie
appeared after a while and clashed with
them.
Source: Attaque
28 May, Athens, Greece: The group
Kolimeni claimed responsibility for a mass
sabotage of over 215 AirBnb key locks in
Exarchia that had taken place the previous
week, sticking them with glue.
“.We will not allow our
displacement from the
neighbourhoods by~ doing simple
actions like the one above but also
with all the means of our movement.
We live here, we live in the
neighbourhoods of downtown Athens,
creating relationships of solidarity and
collectively opposing the plans of the
state and capital, since we, not the
investors, know the needs of our
neighbourhoods.”
Source: Athens Indymedia
31 May, Teulant, Occitania, France: A
GIEC ~cell signing as Gauchistes
Ingénieur.es en Eviction de Catastrophes
set a steamroller on fire at a construction
site on the A69 motorway.
Source: Attack
31 May, Priva, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes,
France: Major internet outage in
surrounding municipalities following an
act of vandalism on Orange network cables
affecting ADSL and fibre.
Source: Sans Nom
31 May, New York, USA: Pro-Palestine
protesters stormed and occupied ~ the
Brooklyn Museum, resulting in clashes
with the police.
Source: Never Sleep
1 June, California, USA: Police vehicle
set on fire in solidarity with the Palestinian
resistance and with students being attacked
by police and by pro-Zionists for
demonstrating in support of Palestine.
Source: Abolition Media
1 June, Le Verne, Occitania, France:
Unidentified persons broke into a quarry
belonging to the Lafarge group and caused
sabotage to the buildings and vehicles
there.
Source: Attack
2 June, Pisa, Italy: Optical fibre cabinet
set on fire with rags and fuel in the Fontina
district of Pisa.
“...We chose the place because it is
located in an industrial area near a
Carrefour hypermarket, a robotics
laboratory of the Sant‘Anna Institute
and the Banco di Pisa. Everyday
reality shows us how domination and
war are directly linked to the
development of these technologies, as
the smart extermination of the
population of Gaza teaches us.
Although the media downplayed the
damage by attributing it to a fault,
they had to admit that repairs will
take a long time. We hope to have
thereby spoiled the work of the
aforementioned institutes and the
celebrations for this hypocritical
republic....”
Source: La Nemesi
3 June, New York, USA: An anonymous
group claimed responsibility for
vandalising the tires of vehicles belonging
to university security, which had
collaborated with the NYPD to harass,
arrest and expel students for their
participation in the struggle against the
Palestinian genocide.
Source: Fwitter
3 June, Tllinois, USA: An unnamed group
claimed responsibility for an attack at
Hudson Technologies, which holds a $250
million contract with the Department of
Defense.
“...Although they ~deserve worse
punishment, we could not let them
continue their crimes with ease...”
Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
3 June, Mexico: Anarchist prisoner Jorge
“Yorch” Esquivel was sentenced to seven
years and six months in prison.
“...S0 far all the evidence presented,
both by his defense and the
prosecution, has shown that there is
absolutely no proof of the fabricated
and completely false accusations
against him. However, it is clear to us
once again that there is a concerted
effort to keep our comrade locked up
as long as possible, since this is a key
part of the UNAM campaign to
discredit the Okupache squat to justify
an eventual eviction of the
autonomous and self-managed
enterprise that has existed and
resisted for nearly a quarter of a
century now.
We are issuing an urgent international
call for riots and solidarity with Yorch
to have his sentence overturned and
his immediate release...”
Source: It's Going Down
3 June, Chile: Anarchist comrade Paty
Rodriguez is released from prison on
supervised release after serving 10 months
in prison for attacking gendarmerie in
December 2021.
Source: La Zarzamora
4 June, Portland, USA: The offices of
Parker-Hannfin, one of the main suppliers
of the F-35 fighter jets, which are
considered the backbone of the Israeli air
force, are set on fire.
“...The State of Israel relies heavily
on weapons and materials sent from
the West to implement its genocidal
policies in Gaza. As insurgents living
in the so-called United States we are
in a unique position to disrupt the
supply chains and infrastructure that
make this genocide possible...”
Source: Rose City Counter-Info
5 June, California, USA: The Biped Wolf
Pack claimed responsibility for blocking
logging projects in the Plumas National
Forest, building dams and digging trenches
to block the advance of logging machinery.
Source: Indybay
6 June, Athens, Greece: Expropriation of
an AB Vassilopoulos supermarket in
Kaisariani.
“..We are not satisfied with the
aimless pursuit of survival, we do not
harmonise with the impasse of
resignation, we are hostile ~to
compromise. We are hitting the
profits of the corporations that
establish and maintain this spectacle
society that we abhor. At the same
time, in the society that remains
uninvolved and bows its head to the
tyranny of the bosses, bending under
the weight of high prices, we counter-
propose the collectivisation of our
needs, self-organisation, direct action
and attack....”
Source: Athens Indymedia
7 June, Berlin, Germany: Arson of the
office of Ronald Gliser, elected
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wonder if this type of physical
surveillance is more common in the EU
because it’s more necessary. In the US
cops can just go to Meta/AT&Tetc.
Also, with the rise of Amazon Ring we’re
putting the cameras up for them (despite
that Amazon recently stated they’ll
require warrants for law enforcement
access to camera footage). Could you
talk about how these material
circumstances (operating in the EU
versus in Russia or the USA or UK)
effect the approach one might take?
Aster: Before answering, 1 want to
acknowledge that at the No Trace
Project, our experience is mostly with
Western Europe and North America. I'm
from Western Europe, and some of our
members are from North America.
want to learn more about other parts of
the world but I don’t feel confident to
speak about them yet.
So, I think that the reasoning you
suggest about physical ~surveillance
being less common in the U.S. is flawed;
P'll try to explain why I think that. Just to
be clear on the terms, what I mean by
“physical surveillance” is the direct
observation of a target. This means that a
surveillance team is on the ground to
watch or follow someone, for example a
suspect in a criminal case. A surveillance
team s typically composed of at least
five officers, and several vehicles. For
law enforcement and intelligence
agencies, physical surveillance is a
resource-intensive and personnel-
intensive surveillance method. Because
these agencies have limited resources
and personnel, this means that physical
surveillance isn’t their preferred method:
if they can obtain the results they want
without using it, they won’t use it.
Physical surveillance is used when two
factors combine: first, the crime being
investigated is a sufficient threat to the
State, for example an arson; and second,
the suspects being investigated need to
be monitored but cannot be monitored
by more accessible surveillance methods
such as phone monitoring. In some cases
investigators try to monitor a suspect’s
phone, or their social media, and so on,
and when this doesn’t provide the results
they want, they resort to physical
surveillance. In other cases, investigators
know from the start that they won’t be
able to monitor a suspect’s phone or
social media, for example because the
suspect is an anarchist known to have
good security, and from the start they
resort to physical surveillance.
And the thing is, all of this applies both
to Europe and to the U.S. So, why does
physical surveillance feel more common
in Europe than in the U.S. in recent
years? I believe it is simply because in
recent years, anarchist attacks viewed by
the State as more threatening, such as
arson attacks, have been more common
in Europe, which has led to a higher
number of severe repressive operations,
and severe repressive operations are
more likely to feature physical
surveillance. Roughly, I'd say that there
has been a drop in “high-profile”
anarchist attacks in the U.S. between the
end of the Green Scare in the 2000s and
the 2020 uprising. This has led to fewer
severe repressive operations, and thus to
fewer cases of physical surveillance.
Interestingly, our Threat Library
references two repressive operations
from the U.S. that involved physical
surveillance, one is from 2000 and one
from 2023, but of course this could be a
sampling bias.
So, in short: physical surveillance is
probably used in the U.S. too, in
particular in places where arson attacks
have recently been claimed by
anarchists. U.S. anarchists ~ could
anticipate the use of physical
surveillance by developing an
appropriate skill set. To help with that,
we've recently translated to English a
comprehensive German zine on the topic
called “Measures Against Surveillance”,
which can be found on our website.
A second issue you mention is the
impact of E.U. privacy laws on police
investigations. 1 believe this impact is
minimal; E.U. privacy laws mostly apply
to private companies and not to law
enforcement. Police in Europe can and
do routinely request data from social
medias, email providers, Internet Service
Providers, and so on.
But then, the question remains: what are
the differences in State repressive
techniques between countries, and how
can we take these differences into
account? This is a good question, and T
don’t have a comprehensive answer for
it, but I can try to discuss a few
examples. As you said, doorbell cameras
such as Amazon Ring are particularly
widespread in the U.S., which increases
the need to dress anonymously when
traversing residential neighborhoods
during an action. Compared to Western
Europe, I think the U.S. justice system
more frequently offers immunity or
reduced sentences in exchange for
snitching, which should probably be
taken into account, but how, I don’t
know. The practice of hiding
microphones and cameras in apartments
and GPS trackers on cars seems more
widespread in Italy. The use of torture in
police custody is more routine in Belarus
and Russia. I suspect that the United
Kingdom employs more long-term
infiltrators than other European
countries, but this is hard to quantify.
TFSR: You make good points.
Considering the tools and technology
widely available, the question of where
do the devices displayed at notrace.how
come from bubbles up in my mind. Have
comrades been able to determine the
sources of the surveillance tools used
against them, if they’re coming from
personal / social enemies, bosses or
mafia, political enemies like
authoritarians or fascists, or state actors?
Aster: Ah, yes, you're talking about our
Ears and Eyes project, that lists cases of
hidden surveillance devices such as
microphones and cameras in apartments,
or GPS trackers on cars. We currently
list more than a hundred devices, with
vast disparities between countries, for
example we have 50 cases from Italy but
only 5 from the U.S. To answer your
question, in most cases, no, comrades
are not able to conclusively determine
who installed a device. This is because
most of the time, when a device is
discovered, the spies don’t try to retrieve
it, or even acknowledge it, and of course
their name isn’t writen on it.
This being said, I believe that the vast
majority of the devices we list have been
installed by State actors. To daetermine
this, we can use two clues. The first clue
is the context. If a device is found by
people who are likely to be under
investigation and don’t have many
personal or social enemies, the device
was probably installed by law
enforcement. The second clue is the
device itself: its components, and how it
is assembled. Non-State actors tend to
use store-bought devices. State actors
tend to use either devices supplied by
specialized companies that often only
market them to law enforcement, or
devices that they manually assemble
themselves.
TFSR: Similar to the question of
sources of the technology, because the
tools, tech and knowledge is more
ubiquitous it would seem that
NoTraceHow offers a lot of
opportunities for counter-surveillance
through reverse engineering those
devices. Can you speak about this?
Aster: Well, on our side, generally all
we have access to is a brief description
of a device components, and sometimes
pictures, which is not enough for
reverse-engineering. This is because we
only document what people publish
online. But for the comrades who
discover a surveillance device, I agree
that there’s a good opportunity for
reverse-engineering, and 1 would
encourage comrades who find a device
to try to disassemble it, understand it,
and publish their findings online, if they
can do so safely. For example, if a
device has an SD card, analyzing its
contents, including by attempting to
restore deleted files, could give clues to
when the device was installed and how it
operated. If a device has a SIM card,
analyzing its contents with a SIM card
reader could give clues to the identity of
the spies. Recently, the SD card of a bug
found in an anarchist library in France
was analyzed, which revealed a few
details about the device.
TFSR: Yeah, that example is really
interesting. Listeners can find
information on this by searching for the
Libertad anarchist library in Paris. I saw
a post about it on anarchistnews.org
some time ago that pulled from Ears and
Eyes.
It strikes me that people have to be
paying a lot of attention to their
surroundings when they’ll notice that
there’s a small camera pointed at them
from the skylight of a nearby building or
the back window of a van parked for too
long on their street. This says nothing of
finding a microphone installed inside of
their photocopy machine leaching tiny
bits of electricity such as in the case of
the Libertad library in Paris. How do
people find these and what does it mean
to have an intimate knowledge of your
surroundings to pick out what is out of
place? Are there techniques or tools that
are suggested for this sort of
exploration?
Aster: About how people find these
devices, sometimes it’s just by chance,
for example in the case of the Libertad
library in Paris, the comrades were
simply dismantling the photocopy
machine for repairs when they found the
bug. And sometimes, people specifically
search for surveillance devices and find
some.
In my opinion, if you suspect that a
place or vehicle might be bugged and
you want to search for surveillance
devices, the first thing you should do is a
manual, visual search. For this, you
need to know where devices are typically
hidden, our website can help with that.
+ In the case of a building, devices
are often hidden next to a power
source, so they can be connected
to it instead of needing a battery.
You can take a screwdriver and
other tools and dismantle power
outlets, multi-socket adapters,
ceiling lights, any electrical
appliances, and look for anything
that shouldn’t be there. You can
also look inside furniture,
basically anywhere a device could
fit. This is a long process, it can
take several hours for a single
room.
+ In the case of a vehicle, devices
are either hidden outside the
vehicle, typically under it, or
inside the vehicle. You can start
by taking a look under the vehicle,
inside wheels, on rear bumpers,
behind ventilation grids, looking
for anything that shouldn’t be
there. Then you can take
appropriate tools and dismantle
the interior, the ceiling, the
dashboard, the seat heads, and so
on. Devices can also be hidden in
motorbikes or bicycles, for
example inside or under the seats.
+ In the case of a camera installed at
a window of a nearby building,
you might be able to detect it
through binoculars, but of course
it's a bit tricky.
+ Inthe case of a camera installed in
a surveillance vehicle in the street,
this is where having an intimate
knowledge of your surroundings,
as you said, can be useful. I'll
briefly explain a specific
technique to detect a surveillance
vehicle with a camera pointed at
your home. This technique only
works if you live in a place where
there aren’t too many different
vehicles that park, so it works in
some residential areas in cities and
in most rural areas. Basically, each
time you exit or enter your home
you take note of all the vehicles
parked in the street that have a
line of sight to your home. You
take note of their model, color,
and license plate, you remember
the information or you write it
down, as you prefer, but if
possible you try to do this without
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looking suspicious. After some
time doing that, you will be
familiar with the “baseline” of
vehicles that park in your street,
which will be the vehicles of
people who live nearby or their
guests. Once you're familiar with
the baseline, you can spot vehicles
that are not part of this baseline
and scrutinize them carefully to
check if they are surveillance
vehicles.
Specialized detection devices also exist,
for example radio frequency detectors to
detect devices transmitting data on radio
frequencies, or camera lens detectors. I
don’t have experience with these
detection devices so I don’t feel
confident to talk about them, but I think
they can be a valuable option that should
be researched.
Also, one thing that should be
remembered is that, when searching for
bugs, you cannot rule out false negatives.
1f you don’t find a bug, maybe there is
one that you missed. And even if you do
find a bug, maybe there are others that
you missed. I think the point of searching
for bugs should be to prevent the State
from gathering information about us, and
not to consider a space to be free from
surveillance devices. For example, I
think that sensitive, incriminating
conversations should not take place even
in buildings that have been searched for
bugs, and should always take place
outdoors and without electronic devices.
One last thing I want to note is that
another option to counter this threat is to
try to prevent the installation of
surveillance devices in the first place. To
install a device in a building or vehicle,
the State needs to access this building or
vehicle, In the case of buildings, they
typically make a covert entry when the
occupants are not there, either by picking
the lock or asking the building owner for
the keys: this can be countered by
making sure there’s always someone in
the building, or by installing our own
video surveillance system to monitor the
building when we’re not there. In the
case of vehicles, they typically install
devices on vehicles parked on public
streets: this could be countered by never
parking on public streets, but of course
this isn’t always possible.
TFSR: In closing, I've seen activists
over the years talking about engaging in
conflict and the repercussions they could
experience from it in individual terms,
ignoring the social impact of state
crackdowns and the network effect of
counter-insurgency. Would you mind
saying a bit about counter-surveillance
and security culture as community
defense?
Aster: For sure, repression can disrupt
networks, in both material dimensions,
for example by sending people to jail,
and psychological ~dimensions, for
example by spreading fear and distrust.
We've already talked about the material
dimensions in the rest of this discussion.
I can talk about two things that I think
we can do to address the psychological
dimensions.
‘The first thing is to find the right balance
in how we mentally approach State
repression. Specifically, 1 think we
should avoid thinking both that we are
*powerless in face of repression* and
thinking that *repression will never
strike*. We are not powerless because
we can organize, we can take measures
against surveillance, we can avoid
repression, we have agency. But it’s
equally wrong to think that repression
will never strike, because we can’t be
sure of that, even if we take a lot of
precautions there’s always chance and
things we can’t predict. I think that if we
manage to find this balance, then if a
comrade gets caught or if we get caught
ourselves we will know that we did our
best to prevent that from happening, but
we also won’t be taken by surprise.
The second thing is that we *can*
prepare for repression. We can discuss
with our friends about our fears of
getting caught. We can make sure that
the people who get arested have
lawyers. We can support our prisoners
and make sure we include them in our
struggles. If we prepare for repression,
we'll be less taken by surprise if it
strikes.
TFSR: Aster, thanks so much for the
time you took for this conversation and
for the work that y’all are doing.
Solidarity and appreciation to you!
Aster: Thanks for the interview! It was a
good opportunity for me to reflect on our
work, it was really helpful.
Information for the case of the hammer attack on an
AB Vasilopoulos in Ilion of Athens
At dawn on Thursday 28/3, cops capture us after a hammer
attack on the facade of Supermarket AB Vassilopoulos in
Tlion. In this text we would like to refer to two points, which
nitially, the speed at
which cops have access to the store's video material,
resulting in a profile for our body types and clothing details.
A profile that makes inspection easier, the "halting" and
identifying in a very short time. And then, the attempt to
upgrade our case file. They first led us to Ilion’s police
station and then with "orders from above", they took us to
TAAA (General Police Administration of Attica). The cops,
while not informing us about the charges for hours and did
not let us contract a lawyer or with comrades, attempted to
"charge" us similar actions that happened recently, with an
incitement to admit what we have done to facilitate our
position. When they realised that they would not receive any
answer from us but that this scenario does not come out as
they want, an attempt was followed of connecting us, at first
with one and after with a second theft in stores in the wider
we consider to be useful to disclose:
area within a short time span, which was told to us seven
hours after our arrest and while these thefts, as we found
out, were already known to them from the beginning. For
our part, we do not want to judge either politically or in any
other way the act of theft against small or large bosses, but
we recognise that in this case, the aim of the cops attempting
to upgrade our case, was terrorism and general repression of
specific types of actions as well as their de-pol
When this was not possible, they were causing delays as
long as they were able so that we will have to be kept for an
additional night in TAAA.
All of these practices do not create any sense of fear and
terrorism at all to us. On the contrary, they further signify
the collective and total action of the anarchist movement,
strengthen our camaraderie and mobilise us to continue.
With no confidence in the state, which wants to appear as a
social state of justice, and its mecanisms, and without
having any both its mechanisms but also without any
intention for self-victimhood, the purpose of this text is to
inform about security measures as well as the corresponding
alertness in regards against the tricks used by the state.
isation.
The arrested
representative of the far-right AfD.
Source: Sans Nom
8 June, Castanet-Tolosan, Occitania,
France: Two Vinci subsidiary trucks set
on fire.
“..The current war economy is
condemning us to increasingly brutal
austerity. In France, internal and
external war is based on territorial
conquest whose military and non-
military infrastructures, control and
traffic, are destroying our vital spaces.
The construction industry and Vinci
profit greatly from this permanent war,
both 'in the urban grid, in the
highways that ravage the countryside,
and in'the subsequent reconstruction
projects, turning a sweet eye to the
international markets where the
colonial disasters take place.
We want to participate in all efforts
that harm this economic logic....”
Source: Indymedia Lille
8 June, Tarn, Occitania, France: Major
riots in Puylaurens against the construction
of the A69 motorway, attended by
thousands of protesters. There were clashes
with the police, with throwing of stones
and Molotov bombs and the use of mortars
by the protesters and tear gas and stun
grenades by the police.
‘The most determined sections of the march
attempted to storm the A69 construction
sites, but a heavy police presence
prevented them and they were forced to
retreat, leaving burning straw bales behind.
Source: Attaque
9 June, unknown location, USA: The
Anarchist Freedom Cell of the Informal
Anarchist Federation / International
Revolutionary Front vandalised buildings
built as part of gentrification.
Source: Act for freedom now!
9 June, Berlin, Germany: An AfD truck
containing leaflets and posters for the
European elections campaign was set on
fire.
Source: Sans Nom
9 June, Piraeus, Greece: The
Autonomous Street Unions set fire to
election booths of independent party
choice on the occasion of the European
election process.
Source: Athens Indymedia
10 June, Bordeaux, France: Major riots
broke out during a demonstration against
the rise of the far right.
Bins were set on fire and buming
barricades were set up, there were clashes
with the police by throwing Molotoy
bombs, and much damage was caused to
fast food restaurants, ATMs, banks,
surveillance cameras, Carrefour stores, and
far-right hotspots.
Demonstrations took place in many other
parts of France on the same day, but none
were as intense as those in Bordeaux.
Source: Attauge
11 June, Oakland, California, USA:
Smashing and bombing attack at the
Federal Building in downtown Oakland, in
response to the violent police siege of the
encampment set up at the San Francisco
Federal Building in protest of the
Palestinian genocide.
Source: Indybay
12 June, Lyon, France: Riots against the
rise of the far right. During the
demonstrations, many shops, banks and a
police station were vandalized, while tear
gas could not stop the anger of the people.
Source: Attaque
13 June, California, USA: Firebomb
attack on UCB campus in response to
attack on UCLA students protesting the
Palestinian genocide.
Source: Indybay
14 June, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA:
School of Fine Arts building vandalised in
solidarity with Palestine.
Source: Unravel
15 June, Richmond, California, USA:
The headquarters of Overra, a contractor
for the building of Cop City, a police
training center, was vandalised.
Source: Indybay
15 June, United Kingdom: Simultaneous
attacks on the windows various branches
of Barclays bank in England and Scotland,
for its relations with the genocidal Isracli
state.
Source: Act for freedom now!
16 June, Cherbourg, Normandy,
France: Burning of cars, garbage cans and
a France Travail agency in the
neighborhood where nineteen-year-old
Sulivan was killed by a policeman a few
days earlier.
Source: Attaque
16 June, California, USA: Action group
Marilyn’s Daughters launched a series of
arson, bombing and robbery attacks at a
construction site on the UCB campus in
solidarity with the Palestinian people and
in response to violent police attacks on
student protesters Palestine
Source: Indybay
17 June, Portland, USA: Anonymous
anarchists claim responsibility for two
simultaneous attacks over the weekend on
petroleum pipeline construction sites. At
one construction site, an excavator and
various other equipment were rendered
useless and various vandalisms were
committed, pipes were broken and cables
were cut with the help of tools found on
the site. At the other site, nails and screws
were placed in the remaining trees against
their felling, and some equipment was
destroyed.
“.The arteries of industry are
everywhere. With a little imagination
and effort, anyone can attack them.
Leviathan is always vulnerable. Strike
now...
Source: Rose City Counter-Info
17 June, Cassis, Provence, France:
Sabotage of rail transport on the Marseille-
Toulon-Nice line. In particular an outdoor
cable was cut, leading to a signaling fault,
causing serious delays.
Source: Sans Nom
17 June, Berlin, Germany: Tesla car set
on fire.
Source: German Indymedia
17 June, Saix, Occitania, France: Around
ten hooded men attacked a construction
truck on the A69 motorway with Molotov
cocktails. There was one arrest.
Source: Attaque
17 June, Nanterre, Ile-de-France,
France: Breaking of windows at the
building of the newly formed Obvious
‘Technologies. With branches in the United
Arab Emirates and Qatar, this company
develops security techniques for the armed
wing of the State and surveillance in 3D
environment modeling, augmented with
artificial intelligence. “... We acted with the
means that seemed sufficient to us, we
have a ot to imagine, and a lot to give up,
like, obviously, voting in the elections.
Slogans for Nahel are still written in the
area, a year dfter he was killed by the
uniformed killers. Their democracy does
not have to wait until the far right comes
to power to destroy people’s lives...”
Source: Indymedia Lille
18 June, Appalachian Mountains, USA:
Anonymous claim of responsibility for the
sabotage of machinery at a pipeline
construction site.
Source: Unravel
18 June, Trémentines, Loire, France:
The collective FNSEA ("Large Crowd in
Solidarity with Damaged Ecosystems")
broke the fence of a water reservoir
designed for agricultural use and misused
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How artificial intelligence helped in the
arrest of Daniele Klette, former RAF
militant
It has come to our attention from
information passed on to us by
comrades in Germany that the former
member of Red Army Faction, Daniele
Klette, was possibly identified using a
new repressive weapon of ‘Artifical
Intelligence image ~ search’. The
program in question is named as
‘PimEyes’, which was used apparently
by an ‘investigative’ citizen cop
Jjournalist from the snitch ‘investigative’
website Bellingcat, who put the police
wanted notice of Klette from the 1990s
through the Al image search. PimEyes is
a facial recognition search website that
allows users to identify all images on the
internet of a person given a sample
image. It is comparable to the facial
recognition company Clearview which is
a notorious for providing software to
law enforcement and government
agencies and other organizations. The
company’s algorithm matches faces to a
database of more than 20 billion images
collected from the Internet, including
social media applications. ~ Several
Twitter users claim to have used it in an
effort to identify US Capitol rioters, for
example.
For several years she was involved in a
Brazilian culture centre in the Kreuzberg,
district, where she practised capoeira, an
Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines
dance and fighting. It is thought that the
discovery of photographs of her with her
capoeira group at Berlin’s annual
camival led to her identification and
arrest. The cops have yet to confirm the
link between the arrest and a podcast
from 2023.
The use of Artificial Intelligence and
Facial Recogintion software is not only
dangerous in the hands of the authorities
but also in its widespread use by the
have a go heroes and citizen cops. With
the increase of surveillance technologies
pernmeating through all society, from
the smart phone camera to the doorbell
Against state terrorism! Attack on a
police station in Bremen, Germany x
After the arrest of Deniela Klette, the Federal Republic
is in a state of pursuit of RAF. One could think that we
have traveled back in time. SEK cops flood one
apartment after another in Berlin in the hope of
catching the rest of the wanted fighters. We wish
Burkhard and Volker good luck with their escape! It is
by no means the only fighters who are successful in
spite of the open arrest warrant and the high pressure of
the manhunt. The accused anti-fascists in Budapest's f§
trial are also prosecuted in an extremely public way.
‘The authoritarian spectacle is intended to scare us all.
Anyone who does not allow himself to be intimidated
and remains actively active should wait to end up in
prison or hide.
And here in Bremen, the office of the prosecutor and
the cops repeatedly investigate radical leftist houses.
‘They come to our homes, threaten our shelters and steal
our things.
Let's not leave these attacks unanswered!
In autonomous solidarity with the persecuted, we
visited the Neustadt Police Department last night. We
caused damage to the security windows with stones and
brought a breath of fresh air to the police toilet.
Freedom to Daniela!
Eternal hate against the police!
Anonymous submission to the German Indymedia
camera. All of these are presented as for
personal safety and security but in actual
fact are leading to the self-surveillance of
our entire environment. In the past
computer technology was brought
forward in Germany in response to the
Red Amy Faction’s attacks.
Computerisation ~ of taxes, rental
agreements, wages, etc were able to be
used to narrow down what the German
security forces named as ‘sympathisers’,
a minimal group of people they could
place under surveiilance that did not buy
into their electronic system, who they
deemed as avoiding it especially if they
paid using cash.
The same tactics that were learnt during
the 70’s and 80’s are now being upgraded
not only by using the advanced
technolgies but asking even more for the
“responsible citizen’ to be their extra pair
of eyes in the comers of the society they
cannot reach. The expansion of crime
fighting “private eye’ style entities on the
internet and social media such as blogs
and podcasts that have already been
mentioned fuel even further the active
participation of growing online private
security industry, by not only private
companies but by any citizen who feels
the need to fill the void in their life by
becoming a Dick Tracey or Inspector
Gadget for the day.
This article is only to highlight once
again the danger of technology to be used
as a weapon to surveil those who dare to
resist as the Red Army Faction did,
which becomes a weapon easily used by
the society to surveil itself in the aid of
the authorities and cops.
For the urban guerrilla, against the
new surveillance technologies and all
the citizen cops
The Uncivilized
From Dark Nights, 03/03/24
About Daniele Klette
Klette had been involved in left-wing
revolutionary groups since 1975. She
primarily engaged in Germany’s anti-
NATO ‘movement before ~affiliating
herself with the RAF’s supporters
network and eventually joining the
group.
‘The RAF carried out attacks against
imperialist, capitalist and state targets.
‘The revolutionary organization was.
founded in 1970 and disbanded in
1998. They were particularly active
during the 70s and 80s.
In the 1980/, the trio allegedly partly
formed the command level of the third
generation of the RAF. The third
generation coordinated with other
European guerrilla struggles like the
Italian Red Brigades, and concentrated
attacks against US and NATO targets,
like the 1981 bombing of the US Air
Force headquarters in Ramstein.
‘The bourgeois state alleges that Klette
was involved in the very last RAF
action which was a huge explosion
targeting Weiterstadt prison in 1993.
‘The attack is considered to be the most
technically perfected attack
incomparable in terms of damage to
other RAF actions.
Klette managed to evade arrest for
more than 30 years, until she was
finally arrested in 28 February 2024, in
the age of 66 years.
The German police were limited to
saying that they discovered her thanks
to a report made by a citizen. It is likely
that this citizen is Bellingcat’s Michael
Colborne, who was asked in a podcast
to help another journalist to locate
Klette at the end of 2023. Colborne is
the one who has found the recent photo
of the former militant through
PrimEyes.
On 27 March 1993, the Red Army Faction (RAF) Command Katharina
Hammerschmidt bombed and destroyed a newly built prison in
Weiterstadt, near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. It was the RAF’s last
major action before it dissolved. At least three armed and masked men
and a woman climbed a high wall and entered the guardhouse around 1
am. The terrorists tied the 10 guards and locked them in a van near a
landfill. They then brought in five cargoes with 200 kg of explosives.
At 5:12 am, the explosives were detonated. RAF's Command
Katharina Hammerschmidt warned the population with signs that the
prison was about to be blown up and asked them to get to safety. The
Weiterstadt prison took eight years to build and cost 250 million Marks
(5155 million). It was designed to be multi-use and high-tech. The
blast managed to destroy the administration building and much of its
security system. At the time the prison was not holding inmates yet —
they were expected by May. Over $90 million in damages was caused.
The prison had to be rebuilt, which took another four years when it
opened and received inmates in May 1997.
~Page 23~
AnarSec: Tech guides for anarchists
Phones
AnarSec is a new resource designed to help anarchists navigate
the hostile terrain of technology — defensive guides for digital
security and anonymity, as well as offensive guides for hacking.
All guides are available in booklet format for printing and will
be kept up to date.
As anarchists, we must defend ourselves against police and
intelligence agencies that conduct targeted digital surveillance’
for the purposes of incrimination and network mapping’. With
the defensive series, our goal is to obscure the State’s visibility
into our lives and projects. Our recommendations* are intended
for all anarchists, and they are accompanied by guides to put the
advice into practice.
‘With the upcoming offensive series, we hope to contribute to the
practice of hacking the State and capital’. Astute readers may
notice that the art feautured on our homepage and booklets is
taken from communiqués detailing how anarchists robbed a
bank (Phineas Fisher®) and destroyed police servers (AntiSec’)
using only a keyboard.
‘The defensive series currently includes:
+ Kill the Cop in Your Pocket
(https://www.anarsec.guide/posts/nophones/)
+ GrapheneOS for Anarchists
(https://www.anarsec.guide/posts/graphencos/)
General
+ Linux Essentials (https://www.anarsec.guide/posts/linux/)
+ Remove Identifying Metadata From Files
(https://www.anarsec.guide/posts/metadata/)
+ Encrypted Messaging for Anarchists
(https://www.anarsec.guide/posts/e2ee/)
+ Make Your Electronics Tamper-Evident
(https://wwiw.anarsec. guide/posts/tampet/)
*hitps://www.notrace.how/threat-library/techniques/targeted-digital-
Tails
+ Tails for
(https://www.anarsec.guide/posts/tails/)
* Tails Best Practices
(https://www.anarsec.guide/posts/tails-best/)
Qube OS
« Qube OS for Anarchists
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Hacker_History
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Toby Shone: The subversive
written word
A contribution by anarchist comrade
Toby Shone from Garth prison (UK), for
the debate “Thought and Action
(“Pensiero e Azione”) - Repressive
Attacks on the Anarchist Written Word”
organised for the Tattoo Circus in EI
Paso Squat, Turin (Italy), March 9-10th,
2024.
ok
Dear comrades,
This is Toby Shone, an anarchist
imprisoned in the operation Adream
which was an antiterrorist investigation
against the counter-information project
325. 1 am calling from a prison in
northwest England, it’s a long term, high
security prison, and the fact that we can
steal these moments is very important.
As you may already know, Operation A-
dream was a repressive attack by the UK
state in which 3 collective housing
projects, a family home and storage unit
were raided by cops. I was accused of
being an administrator of 325.nostate,
which earned me 4 terrorist charges:
section 2 (distribution of terrorist
publications), section 15 (funding
terrorism) and two counts of section 58
(possession of information which is likely
to be useful for terrorist purposes). I was
also accused of several direct actions and
membership of FAI, ELF and ALF.
Hundreds of police were involved in the
simultaneous raids and despite this, only
one of the comrades were briefly detained
and subsequently released for lack of
evidence. It's clear through the conditions
of imprisonment I am held under and the
constant monitoring that an active
investigation continues with tailings and
surveillance of comrades on the outside
along with observation of anarchist social
spaces.
Why s this taking place? It's because
anarchism is a threat to the existing
technocratic order, our direct-action
groups have a palpable reality in however
minimal way in comparison to the task to
be done, and the counter-information
constellation continues to shine in the
dark nights and become easier to use and
navigate. Anarchist publishing is viewed
as being an unacceptable endeavour by
the police and intelligence services.
Reporting on anarchist direct action,
social struggles, and uprisings because it
forms a narmative of subversion is
arguably targeted with as much repression
as that towards those who carry out the
deeds that are being reported. It's a
strategy which has been in existence for a
very long time. In the case of Operation
Adream, the police was scared of the
explicit _anarchist insurrectionalist and
anti-civilization thetoric combined with
the distribution of electronic and paper
publications. During the interrogations a
particular concern of the detectives was
the purpose of anarchist paper
publication. All the electronic documents
have a digital forensic signature known as
the hash value which can be tracked
across the internet and devices even if
deleted from those devices. Paper
it by sabotaging it.
Source: Attaque
18 June, Loire-Atlantique, France: A
GIEC cell signing as Générateur
dimages et expériences combustibles
destroyed with an arson attack an NGE
construction machine responsible for
dumping 600 tons of reinforced concrete
near two Natura 2000 areas of Lake Grand
Lieu.
Source: Information
Toulouse et Alentours
19 June, Lyon, France: Protesters riot and
clash with police against the rise of the far-
right. There were injuries and three arrests.
Source: Attaque
20 June, Rennes, Brittany, France: Anti-
far-right protesters clashed with police
throwing fireworks, with police responding
with tear gas.
Source: Attaque
22 June, Portland, USA: Anonymous
individuals ~claimed responsibility for
sabotage of a pylon that took place within
the same week as part of the Switch Off!
The system of destruction campaign.
“...Electricity exists today as a
critical element of state power,
capital, and ecological destruction.
However small this action may be, the
secret is the beginning...”
Source: Rose City Counter-Info
22 June, New York, USA: An
autonomous group attacked the Puma
flagship store by pouring cement into the
toilets, destroying the products with bleach
and releasing over 1000 crickets. The
company was targeted because of its
supportive role in the Zionist regime.
Source: Palestine Action US
25 June, Noyarey, Isére, France:
Anonymous arson attack on 20000 volt
cables.
Source: Sans Nom
27 June, Athens, Greece: The
Renovations/Demolitions Initiative
claimed responsibility for breaking attacks
on the Isracli-owned Zoia hotels at 25
Metsovou and 30 Kosmas Melodou Streets
in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Source: Athens Indymedia
30 June, Ariége, France: Several polling
stations in the region were sabotaged by
placing glue on the locks of the building’s
entrances. Various anarchist slogans were
also written on the walls.
Source: Sans Nom
30 June, Lyon, France: Another night of
wild protests against the rise of the far-
right, where protesters attacked police with
bottles, rocks, mortars, fireworks and other
projectiles, set up burning barricades and
vandalised various businesses.
Source: Attaque
Anti-Authoritaire
publications on the other hand, cannot be
tracked as they are distributed ~ an
investigation into them requires material
forensics and a traditional police enquiry:
this needs more resources, money, and
personnel and especially the underground
publishing initiatives which may have an
irregular schedule of publishing and
“informal” methods of distribution.
‘This brings us back to the purpose of
anarchist publications: paper copies exist
and have the power through being passed
hand to hand to have an impactful
material reality. They also accumulate
forensic traces, the books, magazines, and
pamphlets we are talking of, dangerous
ideas, which can inspire our lives. Their
time duration is different from those
digital, and we can view that accordingly.
With our publications, even if they are
doomed to be in university libraries,
mainstream bookshops, or worse,
museums and art galleries, they always
remain controversial and even illegal in
some cases. Their purpose is social war
and the destruction of the State. In the
investigation files of Operation Adream,
dozens of anarchist publications were
cited many of which we may take for
granted, that are freely available at
anarchist bookfairs, squats, social centres
and stalls at events. Yet to the police,
special unit, and prosecutors these
publications form part of an amorphous
conspiracy aimed at overthrowing the
establishment, which is correct, but not
exactly in the perverse way that they wish
to interpret it. To explain, we are often
confronted by the repressive model that
has a special function ascribed to theorists
and writers, that of “leadership”. They are
accused of giving orders and instructions
and then cells or cadres then carry out
those orders. I don’t need to tell you that
this is an offense to anarchist practice, but
it was a clear line of questioning put to me
by the counter terrorist division. Does
possession of 325 magazine indicate
‘membership of an organization? Does that
organization execute actions? And is that
organisation part of a larger terrorist
infrastructure? These are the types of
questions bounced at me. With this
scheming, marionettes of repression are
formed, arranged in hierarchical structures
which reflect their feverish minds. So, in
those interrogations the investigators
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focused in some parts on questioning me
about administrative functions, decision
making flows, statistics figures, target
demographics, research and linguistics, or
translations. To the latter the cops wanted
to know who was responsible for the
translations, how they were organized,
and who decided what should be
translated.
At what level does the level of repression
equate to that of our actions? For me, the
answer is straight forward. The level of
repression is currently far beyond that of
the anarchist direct action. Its the nature
of State’s repression to aim fto be
overwhelming and our struggle is still
only an active minority. In the UK the
silence and lack of action highlights the
social living death. But it was not always
this way. And the future —remains
unwritten. That's why police infiltration
will continue to try to prevent for ruptures
and individual attacks. It’s impossible to
separate Operation Adream from the
consequences of over a decade of
anarchist direct action and social riots in
Bristol. Although those things are at low
ebb currently, it doesn’t mean that it will
remain so. Anarchism remains part of the
fabric of this South-West region. And
where the reports, communiques and
analysis are published will remain high in
the list of targets for the State. The
hundreds if not thousands of publishers
across the world, part of a connectivity of
contemporary ~ anarchism, add to our
ability to stay relevant and expansive.
Huge changes are taking place in society,
and mass discontent has the possibility to
form into a needed vital resistance. The
new anarchist critique of high technology
is cited by various intelligence agencies,
State and private, as having the
threatening ability to infect the population
with a deep anger of the digital future.
‘This future being planned by the bosses is
a vast surveillance state which is part of
the cybemnetic matrix, where machines are
taking the place of humans, and the
artificial intelligence has inserted itself
into every place it can be situated.
Likewise, we can see human beings are
becoming more machine-like, and their
environment is degraded and polluted.
Increasingly we can talk about the fact
that many complete failures are taking
place in various social systems, due to the
To those who try to stem the
tempest
Yesterday (7th March) in Rome, two comrades were stopped by cops after first
receiving some copies of "La Tempesta” ("The Tempest"), a newspaper of anti-war
news. The comrades, stopped by car in a strange way on the pretext of identification,
were then transferred to the police station. After several hours they were released
after a lawsuit for illegal printing and seized the 300 copies of the newspaper. The
claim s that the newspaper is not registered and therefore it s "illegal leaflets".
Recent investigations (such as Sibilla and Scripta Scelera) and episodes of this kind —
which are also completely unusual in recent times — confirm that a real attack on the
anarchist press is ongoing. As international tensions grow due to ongoing wars, states
within them are preparing to suppress anyone who insists on disseminating
confrontational and revolutionary ideas and practices. Sometimes the state even acts
as a precaution. Yesterday's event must be read in this sense, as this newspaper is a
new edition that has not yet been distributed.
To respond to this attack, refusing to be silenced, seems to be urgent and necessary
for us.
From La Nemesi, 10/03/24
ecological collapse and economic and
post-industrial transformation. Huge
territories are rapidly changing from
floods, wildfires, draughts and intense
storms. Unprecedented challenges are
coming very quickly with harsh effects on
critical points pertaining to agriculture,
migration, division of labour, geopolitical
conflicts and so on. Our publications and
counter-information networks are a direct
way in which we can communicate our
analysis and methods of organization.
Repression recognizes the danger of the
contagion of this message, and the
narrative which we possess. To the extent
that they illegalize our publications and
try to impose exemplary sentences is only
a means to and end for them. And this is
what we have always faced. If we are
effective, we meet repression, prison,
death. That's what many comrades face
across the world right now. Essentially
some of us have been living under
surveillance and investigation for so long,
everything we do could be considered as
crime, simply existing. That’s worth
writing about and when we read and know
more about what others are confronting
and how, we can gain our power.
Lastly, I want to talk about the censorship
I am facing here. Since it’s been a
consistentfeature of my imprisonment
and is also part of the topic we're
discussing. Many comrades face problems
with their correspondence and receiving
Update on Toby Shone’s situation: Prisoner
support now a threat to national security
On 19 June Toby was issued with an administrative sanction
as a direct result of his “bad attitude” and conveying open
letters and audio interventions outside of the prison. This
comes after several anarchist comrades were removed from
his permitted contact list with the reason being a “threat to
national security”. This sanction will reduce the number of
visits he can receive as well as reducing the amount of money
he can spend on phone calls and groceries. Toby was able to
receive a few letters and postcards recently, but he is still
facing an enhanced censorship on his correspondence and
post. Toby wishes to express that he is well and sends an
embrace of fire to all the other imprisoned comrades and to
the action groups.
All these are part of an ongoing campaign o isolate Toby,
cutting off his contacts with his support network and the
wider outside world. Besides the people who have been
arbitrarily removed from his PIN phone list, most of his mail
is being censored or simply withheld as part of the vindictive
campaign against Toby on the part of the security services in
retaliation for their inability to secure a conviction on the
trumped-up terrorism charges that were hastily dropped by
the prosecution days before he was due to stand trial on
October 6, 2021.
He continues to be persecuted as a direct result of the political
originally charged with.
Write to Toby at:
Toby Shone A7645EP
HMP Garth
Ulnes Walton
Leyland
Preston
PR26 8NE
UK.
views that he holds and at his upcoming parole hearing the
State will make a further attempts to restrict his political
activities post-release by having highly prohibitive license
conditions imposed on him, this despite his having not been
convicted on any of the political charges that he was
It is advisable to send any mail via recorded delivery so that
you can have a record that it was received by Garth in case it
somehow gets mysterious “lost”.
If you have sent him mail previously and had no response — peple in solidarity with anarchist prisoner Toby
‘Toby always replies to any mail he receives — it is likely that Shone.
it t00 has been withheld from him. If so, please get in touch From an ant-prison demonstration in the United
with with his legal team by emailing your evidence t: Kingdom,
j.bicket@birnbergpeirce.co.uk.
All news about Toby are released from Brighton Anarchist
Black Cross: brightonabc.org.uk
publications. This is not unusual. But it’s
worth saying here that I've been denied
access to the majority of my
correspondence and books which I am
being sent. Even though I am facing
denials by the prison administration that
this is taking place, it most certainly is.
‘This is the strength of our newsletters, our
books, our letters to catch with comrades,
that they make the enemy afraid. In my
case, 'm also being denied socialist,
‘autonomous-marxist and ‘communist
papers and books, which have been sent to
me by those in solidarity from the radical
left, as well as books on black history,
transformative justice, and prison
abolition. The very few anarchist books 1
have managed to receive I hold them close
to my heart, here in my cell. Freedom is
written with ink and our blood, like it
always has been and will be. Value your
books, your newspapers, your letters sent
and received, combative memory persists,
and we pass it to each new generation
without efforts alone.
Pl finish here and so I thank you for your
energy and your attention, and a strong
hug to all, ‘and especially those under
repression for the written word. For from
the words come deeds, and that is the
topic we’ve encountered today. Love and
rage, thank you.
Toby,
Garth Prison, 4 March 2024
June 2024.
Athens: Claim of responsibility by
the Direct Action Cells for the arson
attack on the house of the cop
unionist Theodoros Foukas
‘The Direct ActionCells claim responsibility for the aron attack at the home of
the cop unionist, Theodoros Foukas, in the Byron area at the dawn of 1/3.
Three years now our team through the strategy of personal targeting of
representatives of authority is trying to do the slogan “LET FEAR
CHANGE SIDE”. Our visits to the houses of all of these people keep a
miniature of low intensity conflict, a psychological warfare through fear of
the natural target and responds to a minimal scale in the actual terrorism that
has its hideouts in television studios, courts, police departments,
parliamentary offices.
Our attacks are snapshots of the insurrection against the destroyers of our
dreams. A collective gait against the orders of power and the bent heads that
accompany them and aimed at maintaining a war logic. Of organised political
violence that places the political strategy in a total context. Where social
antagonism escapes predetermined norms and rendezvous and becomes
unpredictable, bold, radical, dangerous.
Our visit to Fuka's home is an act of internationalist solidarity with political
prisoners in prisons around the world. In Chile, in the United Kingdom, in
Italy, Germany, Greece. In a period where our movement is in recession, the
restoration of international solidarity is not a mere duty of the anarchists of
action. It is a non-negotiable ethical obligation to make our comrades who are
incarcerated not to be some forgotten cases of a story that has elapsed, but on
the contrary vibrant examples that feed the will for struggle and are an
incentive for action.
For Fransisco Solar, Monica Caballero, Alfredo Cospito, Nikos Maziotis,
Dimitris Koufontinas, Toby Shone, Daniela Klette, Aldo and Luca
Hernandez, Anna Beniamino, Marcelo Villarroel.
In memory of Barbara Balzerani.
“It was necessary to predict the enemy, to be a step ahead of them,
to conquer an aggressive mentality, and to fully utilize the
potential of a movement that was still not disarmed by
tacticianisms, by the tactical sweet talks of political alchemies
without any credibility. Crushed among a multitude of comrades,
immediately "after", we honour so much pain in that emotional
abnormal atmosphere of extreme moments, those during which
everything can happen and nothing is in its place anymore. A
mixture of fear, anger, pain, rising in the mouth, with the dense
taste of maximum emotional charging and involvement. I listened
to the voices, the slogans, the insults, the threats. All a hug, being
compact, all a voice at that moment. How lucky at such hours to
be all together, so many, to take and give courage.”
- Barbara Balzerani
Direct Action Cells
Uruguay: Agitation in solidarity
with long-term anarchist convicts
Responding to the international call of solidarity with the long-term anarchist
convicts, we took to the streets of Montevideo as a minimal gesture against
the oblivion and isolation in which states want to submit anarchist comrades
who have been captured to the prisons of the world.
Our message is clear: our brothers and sisters behind the railings are not
alone! And we will continue with them in the struggle against prison sociaty
and against every power.
International and permanent solidarity with rebel prisoners!
For the end of prisons! Free the prisoners!
Death to the state! Long live anarchy!
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Chania, Greece: Solidarity with A. Cospito,
A. Beniamino, F. Solar, M. Caballero
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On Wednesday, June 05, we posted banners and wrote slogans on central streets of Chania in
solidarity with captive companions in Italy and Chile.
The first banner was placed in Splantzia Square, and concerns the Italian anarchists Alfredo
Cospito and Anna Beniamino. Comrades are incarcerated in the Italian prisons persecuted —
among other things — by the repressive and judicial operation Scripta Manent. The indictment
that was settled has as its target the over 20 years long pressence of revolutionary anarchism of
the neighbouring country. Anna and Alfredo have been accused of a series of attacks with
rudimentary explosives that caused material damage to political targets in the early 2000s. Their
participation in these cases has not been proven to date. The companions, however, were even
confronted with the category of "political massacre”, based on attacks against Carabinieri
schools in Fossano and Crocetta (without victims or injuries for anyone who cares).
At the Torino Court of Appeal in June 2023, A. Beniamino will testify, inter alia, that "the
massacres committed in this country were the poisoned fruit of the complexity of politics and
economic power, which is as far as possible from the anti-authoritarian thought and praxis... The
various investigators are confused because they do not even know the essence of the indictment,
they fill their papers with glaring lies and contradictions, simply to fulfill their purpose. Nothing
strange here: It is the sick ethics of this era, where the murderous profit is sanctified, and poverty
is criminalised. "
Last Apri, the Court of Appeal will finalise a 17-year and 9-month sentence for Anna, and will
sentence Alfredo with an additional 23 years in prison. Alfredo Cospito has been a prisoner of
the Italian state since 2013, when he and Nicola Gai would injure Roberto Adinolfi, ,managing
director of a nuclear company.
In a decade when states were launching the way for the violent social changes we are
experiencing today, and are dictated by war conflicts and climate change, the two comrades sent
with their action an ultimatum with a different recipient. In a decade when nuclear energy,
synonymous with the disaster, became synonymous with state security strategy, Alfredo and
Nicola reminder that... revenge is a night and that memory is not so easily crumpled. On 5 May ,
2022, Alfredo will receive notice of his transfer to the "41bis" regime, a status of total isolation
aimed at coercion, blackmail and repentance. We send strength and solidarity to Alfredo and
Anna. No verdict, condemnation or sentence can halt the course of anarchist action, and bend the
minds of people who are struggling with dignity.
‘The second banner was placed on the streets of the old port. So we send a message of solidarity
to Monica Caballero and Fransisco Solar. Fransisco is responsible for sending two mail bombs in
July 2014. The first recipient was former Chilean Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter. It was the
orchestrator of a series of legislation and repressive businesses against rebel students and
anarchists. It was still the leading mind of escalating the repression and militarisation of the
Mapuche communities. The deaths of Manuel Gutierez and the 81 prisoners of San Miguel still
burden him. The culmination of the repression and the images of dozens of severely injured
demonstrators in Aysen and Freirina will put in the frame the recipient of the second mail bomb:
the 54th section of the Chilean Police, a section that those who served it carry in their hands the
blood of the murdered comrade Claudia Lopez, but also that of hundreds of protesters.
On 27 February, 2020, a bourgeois neighborhood of Chile will rise to the leg, following an
explosion in the Tanica building, where the real estate agencies are housed. During the
insurrection that erupted in October 2019, the immediate cooperation of the companies of large
companies and repressive bodies was unfolded, with the aim of returning to normalcy. The
counter-insurgent front has prioritised the preservation of the neighbourhoods that are being
nested by the ruling class. The message of the rebels was clear. The normalcy of the wealthy and
harmful representatives of repression is crushed through the polymorphous insurrectionary
practices, even at a single moment. For this action, Fransisco Solar will take responsibility, while
Monica Caballero will be accused by the law enforcement authorities.
In the primary trial of 6th November, Fransisco will note "and if you ask me if it was worth it, I
answer: It was not only worth it, but that it is worth it and that it would undoubtedly be worth it.
Making the individual decision to rebel, avenge and to end, at least for a while, the impunity of
the powerful is one of the most beautiful moments you can experience ... To convey ideas to the
realm of the feasible is always essential and important if Someone will freely decide to face
power, even if it costs him decades or even his life. The action is always worth it. "
Power and solidarity to the imprisoned comrades from Chile and Italy
In a world where we don’t fit, in a world that wants us more and more consumable,
resistance by any means is an one-way street
Complicity - Rage - Dignity!
Network of Anarchists/Anti-authoritarians
Which
considerations
~Page 26~
international?
starting
Some
from
the
scattered
Greek
publication of Alfredo Cospito’s interview
On 16, 18 and 29 May, 2024, there were
some presentations and discussions in
Athens, Thessaloniki and Komotini on the
occasion of the recent edition of the Greek
translation of the interview "Which
International?" by Alfredo Cospito, which
was originally published in Italian in the
homonymous book by Edizioni Monte Bove
and was curated by anarchist authors of
"Vetrolo". The first edition (March 2021),
which was exhausted long ago, was
followed by a second edition in November
2022 during the indefinite Alfredo hunger
strike against 41 bis imprisonment and life
imprisonment. The recently ~published
Greek edition includes only the interview.
In Komotini, where lately the state is
trying in vain to evacuate the anarchist
hangout Utopia A.D., the event took place
with the third ~re-occupation of ~the
hangout. Below we quote the
announcement of Utopia A.D. for the re-
occupation and the event, an intervention
of an author of "Vitriolo” at the event and
an update on what followed about the fate
of Utopia A.D.
Utopia A.D.: Re-occupation and event
On Wednesday, 29 May, we re-occupied
the Utopia A.D anarchist hangout where
we held the scheduled event on the book
presentation of the anarchist ~niilist
Alfredo Cospito in the anarchist Italian
newspaper Vetrolo, there was a phone call
and update from an Italian comrade about
the 41 bis regime and the current situation
in Ttaly, while a text was sent to us by a
comrade of the Vetrolo newspaper, which
we translated into Greek and read at the
event, followed by an update by a comrade
as a reference to the new penal code and
the event closed with a discussion, after the
first questions were raised to the comrade
from Italy.
There were tables with texts, stickers,
posters, brochures and books as well as
poster exhibition, while banners in
solidarity with squats were hanged. The
event was attended by 20 people.
It should be noted that when we
approached the site, there were about 10
people of the technical service team with
the intention to prevent the re-occupation
and the event. Of course they didn't
succeed. What we have made clear is that
it is not only the rector and the cops our
enemies but also anyone else who stands
against us. The issue of the evacuation of
the hangout is clearly political and
provocative as they placed guardians in our
space. The workers of the technical service
have no business to get involved in
political issues.
It is obvious that they are following orders
and are afraid of being dismissed, we don’t
even care since neither any of the technical
support workers tries to understand us
when they ask us to understand them. If
they have work-related issues with their
bosses they can fight ways of struggles
related to their class, we will not feel sorry
for any freightened minion of the enemy.
From now on anyone who stands against
us will be treated as he chose to be ...
—
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Nothing is over Everything continues
What follows is the introduction by the
hangout and the text of the comrade from
Vetriolo as well as some photos.
Alfredo Cospito has been a prisoner of the
Italian state since 14 September 2012. In
May 2012, the director of Ansaldo
Nucleare and a subsidiary of
Finmeccanica, Roberto Adinolfi, gets shot
at the knees, an action which is claimed by
Alfredo along with Nikola Gai and for
which he has been convicted. The claim of
responsibility was signed by “Cell Olga —
FAVIRF”.
In 2016, already in custody, he was
accused of bombing attacks in the context
of Operation Scripta Manent. In 2020 he
was sentenced for two bombs that were
sent to the Carabinieri schools in Fossano
by FAI/Anonymous Chaotic Guerrilla.
In 2021 in November he was accused of
moral incitement in the context of
Operation Sibilla, for which he was
acquitted in December 2021.
Since 5 May, 2022, and after having been
strictly censored in his correspondence,
Cospito is eventually transferred from the
highest security prison to extreme isolation
(41bis) where on October 20 of the same
year a long hunger strike began.
One of the reasons cited by the Italian state
for putting Alfredo Cospito to 41 bis is the
interview — discussion entitled "WHICH
INTERNATIONAL?" that the comrade
made with the anarchist newspaper
Vetrolo, being accused of “cooperation
with the aim of terrorism and undermining
the democratic order” and for moral
incitement to “crime commission, with an
aggravating factor in terrorism”.
What A. Cospito said in the interview has
annoyed the state so much so that it sent
the comrade to the most extreme
imprisonment regime, trying to silence him
and kill him, since 41bis is not a harsh
isolation but a prolonged torture of
spiritual and physical extermination.
Based on the above, the importance of this
particular translation into Greek and the
publication of “WHICH
INTERNATIONAL?” from the anarchist
project Ragnarok and the anarchist
hangout Nadir becomes absolutely clear,
The analysis by Alfredo Cospito in this
interview on the technology of the world
system and the role of the state and capital
is apt and very important to understand,
but what is important is what he says about
the state of anarchy in the new facts about
repression, control and surveillance, but
mainly the principles of anarchist praxis
and theory.
It is no coincidence that praxis is
mentioned before theory, the situation we
are experiencing does not give us the
luxury of long-term theoretical placements
in long and sometimes boring events. It is
time for actions; direct actions in the here
and now, but also with their support from
groups active in the public space. It needs
to open a channel of communication
through claims of responsibility as well as
statements of individuals and collectives
who do not act illegally. All of this in an
international level, thus creating a global
web.
In recent years, the domination of
reformism in radical movements combined
with rightism have resulted in the retreat of
anarchy, for each step back the states take
two steps ahead. This is how the
supposedly temporary regime of 41 bis in
Ttaly went through, this is also how the
new penal code went through in Greece
despite the reaction that existed from the
bar associations and the legal world in
general.
As long as steps are being taken backwards
and hope is deposited in institutional
instruments, parties, etc. power will attack,
whatever comes as something temporary
will be a test for the permanent and
howmany institutional o harmless
reactions can emerge, the result will
always be in favour of the existing system,
now not even the constitution matters.
The best defense is attack, the theory is
more interesting when conspiring in the
barricades.
Anarchist Hangout Utopia A.D.
‘The publication in Greek of the interview
"Which International?" It is an additional
important opportunity to support anarchist
propaganda_initiatives with the aim of
internationalist solidarity between
comrades, as well as a moment of
continuing solidarity mobilisations over
the period 2022-23 to break the isolation
regime imposed for more than two years
against Alfredo Cospito. However, it's not
just that. Given the issues addressed in the
text could be an opportunity with which
we are able to take steps forward to
continue a depth of studying hypotheses
and organisational concepts that
distinguish the anarchists in order to
deepen the discussion that has developed
in the international anarchist movement
since the early decades of the last century
on the nature of the particular anarchist
organisation, its functions and
perspectives.
The tangle of ambitions associated with
this discussion still reflects an urgent need
and hope: to develop new actions for a
refreshed impulse to act.
The development and publication of the
Interview-dialogue "Which International?",
which was done with Alfredo between
2018 and 2020 on the pages of the
anarchist newspaper "Vetriolo” (followed
by volume editions published in 2021 and
2022, accompanied by an important
appendix, including the most recent ones
that came out during Cospito’s hunger
strike).
A century ago, the terms of dispute
between the anarchists were the same, that
is, between the "organisational” and the
"anti-organisational" anarchists. Starting in
the 1980s — with the decisive contribution
of comrades who encouraged "anarchism”
and “challenging” — they were positioned
between an organisational synthesis
(crystallised in permanent structures and
periodic conferences, with a quantitative
development between the main goals) and
an informal organisation (based on affinity
groups and the comrades who recognise
each other in a case or an area of planning,
which puts action as a promotional aspect).
By termination of any revolutionary
yearning or radical transformation of social
reality on the part of the more or less
historical synthesis organisations, today's
discussion can be defined in terms of a
necessary deep study of the deviations that
have been received informally at least in
the recent years, hence in the different
theoretical-practical paths that the
comrades found appropriate to take over in
this area. On the one hand, the reflection
on this question has certainly defined the
sprouting of countless revolutionary
impulses. On the other hand, in terms of
the Italian-speaking anarchist movement,
there has been reluctance,
misunderstandings and conflicts that have
led to the consolidation of a chronic
difficulty in dealing with the issue. In
these, a need by the state has been added to
end any in-depth analysis in terms of
perspective, isolating and attempting to
give a warning by doing this, as well as
demonising the support of the offensive
against the state and capital (see Operation
Scripta Manent, Sibilla and Scripta Scelera
over the accusations of incitement and
commiting a crime with the exacerbating
occasion of the purpose of terrorism).
With the anarchist newspaper "Vetriolo”, in
which Alfredo also participated, and which
they were determined to repress it, there
was an attempt to contribute to the
discussion of the organisational means
within the anarchist movement, as well as
to some aspects of anarchist theory, aware
of - as stated in the introduction to the first
edition of "Which International?"
"Underlining the importance of action, the
destructive event that s generally
understood, is not enough to get us out of
the shallowness of the lack of perspective.”
In particular, the pages of the newspaper
addressed the anarchist’ perception of class
struggle, beyond the misunderstandings
that often lead to the belief that the concept
of "order is a kind of Marxist
manipulation or an anachronistic
theoretical bloating and that it must
therefore be set aside. "Vitriolo", despite
all its limitations, has represented a space
where it deepens the effects of the changes
that took place on the social reality of
those times and in the process of
technological progress that has determined
the struggle.
The transfer of Alfredo Cospito to 41 bis (5
May, 2022) was particularly prompted by
the results of the Scripta Manent trial at the
“Turin Court of Appeal and by the research
activities merged in the Sibilla procedures,
the latter was in particular about the
publication of "Vitrolo".
"Which international?" Concerning Scripta
Manent, the ruling in the Court of
Cessation against the twenty defendants
was a few months after Alfredo's transfer
to 41 bis (and this proposal was followed
by a series of hearings on the definition of
penalties against Alfredo and his comrade,
Anna Beniamino. This story was used
shamelessly to justify the detention of the
comrade in 41 bis and with it, along with
the other procedures already mentioned,
the new holy inquisitors_intended, among
other things, to maintain that anarchists are
“instigators”.s0 much because of a non-
existent need to “dispute”, but probably
because it seems to me that the issue is still
worth mentioning. The revolutionaries and
the anarchists have no confidence in the
justice of the state and we give essence to
our own ideas, to our particular vision of
the world, so that it can be a stimulus of
autonomy of thought and action. So we
support the reasons for the attack and do
not “instigate” neither we “direct” anything
multiple initiatives during the
mobilisation of solidarity with Alfredo
and other revolutionary prisoners under
41 bis and life imprisonment, those who
act against the state and capital have
developed such determination that they
do not need to be instigated. It is
therefore the autonomy of thought and
action that must be expressed, not the
collectivity and the submission ~to
commands.
Prisoners are revolutionaries who, like
many other comrades, are imprisoned
because the state believes that in this
way it can give a waming to our
struggle, a warning, first of all, to all
revolutionary paths and experiences.
Any repressive attack by the state —
large or small — must be understood in
the ongoing conflict, shaped according
to its progress, and applied by the
repressive mechanism in order to
prevent the need for action, trying to
discourage any matwity in this
direction. We are at a time when it
becomes increasingly clear how war is
the constituent essence of the state,
where the state and capitalist slaughter
is the daily reality, where the exploited
are slaughtered at work, where
governments are moving undaunted into
their own spiral. Hence the transfer of
Alfredo Cospito to 41bis was also an
expression of war policies and should
be understood as an act of internal war,
with everything that accompanies it. In
this context, today's evolution of
exploitation conditions produce a
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humanity always more submissive to
capital techniques and deprived of any
residue of dignity, is called upon to
determine new needs for conflict. The
hope described at the beginning of this
contribution — the development of new
actions for a renewed impulse to act
seems necessary, both directly and in §
the future. Beyond the quick changes
that have taken place in recent years, a
text like "Which International?" remains
relevant and can become a valuable
opportunity for reflection in this sense.
Greetings to all attendees and special
thanks (o the comrades who promoted
the initiatives.
Francsesco Rota
Update on the trial of the comrade who got arrested for the re-
occupation of Utopia A.D.
After the [fourth] recovery of the anarchist hangout Utopia A.D. on Friday 21/06, a coordinated police operation took place
on Wednesday 26/06 and the hangout was raided by the police, resulting in yet another evacuation of the hangout and the
arrest of the comrade. The invasion took place after a complaint that was made by the security guard who, however, received
an order from the head of the technical service on the order of the university’s rector Fotis Maris who is hiding behind the
guards and is still holding the belongings of the hangout hostage.
The sentence that was given to the comrade for DISRUPTION OF THE FUNCTIONING OF A SERVICE is one year in
prison without parole, ten euros for each day and the court costs. The comrade made an appeal. The charge of self-redress was
dropped since it had been added after the interrogation, without the comrade’s knowledge
Everything continues...
Solidarity to squats
Anarchist Hangout Utopia A.D.
Monica Caballero: Autonomy and
persistence against prisons
Almost a month ago I was transferred to the prison where I
will have to serve my sentence, the CPF of Santiago. This
prison has a rather atypical structure in comparison to other
prisons in this territory, since in some areas it maintains the
foundations of the old convent that fulfilled the “correctional
work for bad women”, from there different modules and
sections have been built. Among the sections that were built
to segregate specific groups of women prisoners are the
following: Special High Security Section (SEAS), New
Hope and Direct Custody.
SEAS was created mainly to house prisoners for crimes of
political violence in the 90's. In those years, those prisoners
belonged topolitical/military/subversive groups (FPMR,
MIR, Mapu-Lautarol). With the release of the political
prisoners, little by little, those with a history of escapes
and/or refractory to the prison regime and leaders of
trafficking gangs began to occupy the High Security Prison.
It was not until 2010 that the women prisoners for political
violence returned to the SEAS, the first “Bomb Case2”
allowed the first anti-authoritarian women to take up the
thread of struggle left by the first political prisoners. Over
the years the SEAS continued with the same dynamic, until a
few years ago where this section is used to keep prisoners
while another permanent space is enabled for them.
Upon my arrival at this prison, I was informed that the SEAS
would return to the place of yesteryear, so if or if I had to be
in it. All this came to nothing because today there is a group
of approximately 60 women brought from the San Miguel
prison, these women live in deplorable conditions.
Another of these special modules is “Nueva Esperanza”,
which has only and exclusively women for crimes against
humanity, all these prisoners were responsible for some of
the many atrocities that occurred during the dictatorship, I
am referring to torture, disappearances, permanent
kidnappings, murders, etc. Most of these women are former
members of the EEA.A*** and of the security forces.
Although I do not know the living conditions of the torturers,
since special care is taken in everything that surrounds them,
but even so I would dare to say that they live in a place more
like a rest home than a prison.
Finally, there is the module that I am currently in, Direct
Custody. This section was born out of the need to segregate
prisoners for violent and high-profile crimes, and over the
years this has been maintained to some extent. This section
has also been used to keep very specific cases of women for
political violence, among these was a former militant of the
FPMR and now me.
Since I entered this prison, both my comrades and I have
requested through the different bureaucratic instances of the
gendarmerie the authorization to continue my university
studies, which I started in 2022 in San Miguel prison. This
has not been authorized.
Alittle more than two years ago, I became the first inmate in
Santiago to start university studies while I was in preventive
prison. A matter that was not without problems, which one
by one were solved thanks o the set of solidary wills that
made that until today I am studying my third year as a
student in the career of Law.
In this prison I have not been able to resume my studies
because according to the information provided by the
gendarmerie staff, the only thing missing is the authorization
of the Regional Director, who can take as much time as he
deems convenient to simply manage the continuity of
something that has been going on for years.
It seems incredible that the facilities are not given and that
obstacles are put in the way of something that seems to be as
basic and essential as studying, we cannot ignore that the
power structures are capable of breaking their own rules over
and over again, according to their convenience.
What is it that the high command of the gendarmerie fears in
order to give course to the authorization that does not allow
me to study? Do they have direct orders from the Ministry of
Justice or another organism? Or is it that they are
apprehensive that if they give the authorization the prison
population knows that there is no legal impediment that does
not allow them to have higher education while in prison? Or
perhaps they are exhausting all instances to prevent a
prisoner (which they call common, but they maintain quite
“uncommon” regimes) to have legal knowledge? Whatever
the answer is, I demand that they comply with their own laws
and allow me to maintain my university studies.
For this I appeal to all forms of solidarity that can pressure
the regional and national directorate of gendarmerie to give
course to the relevant authorizations so that I can continue
my studies.
‘With all this I reaffirm that for greater degrees of autonomy
the only option for those of us who choose the path of denial
against domination is the persistent struggle, which would
remain within these walls if it were not for the dozens of
hands of solidarity.
Ménica Caballero Sepiilveda
Anarchist prisoner
May 2024.
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wnarch,
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~Page 28~
Upcoming publications of the project in Greek
‘We are an ancient wind that
continues to blow
“This brochure, which was originally published in Informativo
Anarquista in March 2024 in Spanish, was written by
comrades of the informal anarchist organisation New
Subversion, operating with guerrilla actions in the Chilean
territory.
‘The purpose of the brochure is to contribute to the debate on
the capabilities and strategic issues of anarchist action, for the
development of a resilient and unyielding urban guerrilla,
opening new paths of negation towards the construction of
anarchy in the here and now
ERCUBNTRO INTERNACIONAL DE PR
MMRWICAS Y AN;IQUTURITARIB
"'I "“M’:”
J,n
Kmvovraq TQ ouvopa.
OMKr} aneAevBEpuon & PABEVITTIKES,
GTOPIKIOTIKEG OTIKEG TNV
aNOIKIOKPATOBEVA MEPLOX YWWOTH WE MEEIKS
This zine is an interview conducted by Warzone Distro with
Guta — one of the organisers of the Annual International
Meeting of Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarian Practices Against
Borders — which took place on January 25-27, 2024 in
Tijuana, Mexico. This event reflects a new emergence of
anarcho-individualist / anarcho-nihilist perspectives not only
as a result of today’s techno-industrial world, but also because
of the perceived failures of the left in so-called Mexico and
beyond.
BLACKOUT
O
ANTINAPAGEZEIZ IXETIKA ME
THN ZHMAZIA KAI THN
ANOTEAEZMATIKOTHTA TOY
ZAMNOTAZ
“"We are at war," Macron said bluntly in early 2020,
declaring a state of emergency over the coronavirus and
deploying his uniformed minions to make sure no one
leaves their homes. The mass movements that defined
France's political landscape in previous years have
suddenly disappeared, caught up in the bans, self-control
and fear of the virus. But soon a new wave of radical
resistance began to emerge. Practices previously used by
only a handful of anarchists began to proliferate:
informal organisation in small action groups and
sabotage spread at such a rate that attacks ended up being
almost daily, both in France and elsewhere in Europe.
These tactics were by their very nature immune to
curfews and bans on agatherings.
The main targets of these attacks, 5G antennas and
optical fibres, were a direct response to the technological
restructuring process launched by the States on the
occasion of the state of emergency: the development of
the 5G network, the digitisation of services, medical
surveillance and population mapping, the restriction and
control of movements through QR codes, passes and
smartphone applications.
At the same time, an intense debate between anarchists
and radical environmental activists began about what is
the importance and effectiveness of these actions. How
can we undermine technological control? What scenarios
can these sabotages lead us to? How should strategic and
ethical issues be balanced? And many other such
questions. This brochure is a collection of some of these
texts that contributed to this debate in France.
Three years later, our confinement seems like a bad
memory. But the success of this social experiment at the
global level means that States could follow the same path
again whenever they deem it necessary. After all, within
these three years we have seen new leaps in the
restructuring of society due to new crises, such as the war
in Ukraine, the intensification of climate change and the
energy crisis.
Today the situation may have evolved, but the issues
discussed in this brochure remain unanswered.
‘The present newspaper is the printed form of the project Blessed Is The Flame, which will be irregularly issued.
‘The purpose of this project is not only to disseminate black-flag anarchy, but more generally to disseminate the
radical theory, praxis and criticism that stems from the act of insurrectionarry armed desire, recognising that the
social situation we are in, and which we did not choose, leads our lives to bankruptcy, to the alienation of our
Egos.
‘We do not attempt to persuade anyone, we do not wish to bet on the mass mobilisation of a robotised society. What
we are trying to do s contribute in building a communication bridge between those who have chosen to revolt here
and now and those who want to revolt. We are what we are because we got courage and inspiration from the rebels
who show us what is possible. We do not postpone the insurrectionary and revolutionary action for an
indeterminate future because we are liberated from the bonds of hope. We are not nihilists because we are simply
pessimists. No, we are nihilists because the situations around us do not allow us to think of future topias, because
‘we do not wait for freedom to come, but we bring freedom each time we act with defiance and without
compromise against society, state, capital, and any other aspect of civilisation. This is the most immediate
realisation of anarchy.
Long live direct, anarchist and guerrilla action
No resignation, no truce, no peace
For anarchy, nihilism and individualism